623 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. P. J. Harvey

Work Creative Words World Become Painting Those Drawing Find Some Ongoing Poetry Songs Toward Well Mostly Always Off Same Short Being Stories Short Stories Place Them Then Assignment Start

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. P. J. Harvey

Photography Painting Drawing Physical Like Because Very Did Prefer Sculpture

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. Pablo Picasso

People Painting Think Detail Particular Does Opposite Just Whole Peach

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work. Patti Smith

Work You Creative Yourself Painting Tools Give Gives Shares Drove Like Look Him Doing Artist Impulse Moment

As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. Patty Jenkins

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. Paul Cezanne

You Painting Difficult Think Always Got

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. Paul Cezanne

Art Painting More Am Friend Than Producer

In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo. Paul Rand

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A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. Paul Scofield

You Painting String Ape Much Means Pearls

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. Paul Simonon

Love Lost Painting Putting Getting Process Canvas Paint

Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking. Perfume Genius

Looking Painting Circles Almost Like Blush Victorian Fun

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise. Peter Doig

Me Painting Think Otherwise Elsewhere Would Takes Also Still Escape

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable. Peter Doig

You Space Somewhere Just Be Painting Think Francis Francis Bacon Bacon Loft Vast Had He Studio Make Comfortable Felt Built Going Just Decent Cannot Working Special

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier. Peter Doig

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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. Peter Doig

Painting Becomes Timeless Interesting

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. Peter Doig

Great Made Painting Way Bad Some Deliberately Him Were Paintings

I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios. Peter Falk

Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status. Peter Landesman

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Writing and Painting are the same for me. Peter Malkin

Me Writing Painting Same

I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them. Peter Max

Love Smile Music Me Moody Amazing Jazz Painting Thinking Tyler Meeting Types Dimension Fusion About Like Steven Bebop Makes Rock Chick Michael Michael Jackson Lionel Jackson Artists Wood Different James Loved Ronnie Them Fifth Taylor Taylor Swift Richie Hard Swift Hard Rock Many Each Different Types Each One

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. Peter Shaffer

Painting London New York New York Oil Watercolor

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