623 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset. Rick Rubin

Great You Sunset Balance Listening Looking Building Painting Starts Everything Signing See Could Songs Always Artist Anything Whether Producing

Nature engenders the science of painting. Robert Delaunay

Nature Science Painting

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. Robert Delaunay

Problem World Pure Research Painting Paris Ideal Ideal World Know Any Really Moment Who Painters Searching Present Present Moment

Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting. Robert Glasper

Song Painting Everybody Favorite

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. Robert Hughes

Sex Painting American Psychoanalysis Landscape Novel

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect. Robert Indiana

Work Quality Gone Painting Say Immediately Rigid Allegorical Rather Direction Shall Since Heads Course Always Still Were Very Fixed Which Aspect Portraits Images

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back. Robert Irwin

Good You Will Painting Seconds Back Eye See Some Brought Perfect Take Red How Up Square Green Want Hold Place Really Paint Works Strategically Away

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle. Robert Merrill

Painting Felt

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it. Robert Rauschenberg

Looking Painting Without Becomes Itself Very Familiar Quickly Turned

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings. Robert Rauschenberg

Painting Enough Way Say Possibilities Out Find Facile Know Making Accomplish Just Want Just One Explore Paintings Two

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. Robert Rauschenberg

Life Painting Think Limited Anyway

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission. Robert Rauschenberg

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting. Robert Redford

Experience World Country Painting Increasing Ways Out Seeing Through Get Artist Different Wanted Storytelling Skill Exploring Europe Different Ways Set

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Robert Smithson

Art Architecture Finished Painting Habit Sculpture

People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting. Rolf Harris

You People Big Not Talking Down Painting TV Van Van Gogh See Voice Brushes Could Weekly Rembrandt Picasso Like Talk Learned Talking Around Doing Camera Friendly Did Gogh Just Where Explaining Them Paint Programme

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting. Roma Downey

Good School Thought Painting Drawing High High School Very Artist Might

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette. Ronny Cox

Good You Three White Painting Think Characters Bad Bad Guy Bad Guys Guy Guys Colors Red Most Always Get Blue Interesting Interesting Characters Prefer Much Whole Palette Good Guy Playing

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it. Rosanne Cash

Time You Try Painting Kind Take Studio Like Know Go Being Different Really Your Deep Different Things Things

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call. Rose Byrne

Life Art You Change Book Song Phone Inspire Made My Life Seen Big Painting Phone Call Definitely Something Small Scene Inspired Like Know Make Call Read Cliche Big Change Issue Done Where Whether Novels Film

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition. Rosemary Mahoney

Future Me Quality Vision Mind Valuable Painting Incredibly Everything Evidence Security Weapon See Feels Like Am Private Camera Reference Gets Stored Transformed Sketch Ammunition Away Ever Watch

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed. Roy Lichtenstein

Seriously Painting Other Destroyed Put Abstract Got Bedroom Get Them Pop Used Paint Paintings Floor Started

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting. Roy Lichtenstein

Saying Good You Better Brilliant Own Energy Painting Statement Something Something Good Higher Make Making Energy Level Your Level Things Two

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