621 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. Gustave Courbet

Painting Negation Visible Ideal Essence Representation Realism Forms

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. J. G. Ballard

Beautiful Women Looking Painting Marlin Destroyed Photograph Mysterious Never Never Stop Know Beautiful Women Make Blitz Surrealist Huge Dominated Commissioned Artist Stop Which Paul Room Original Violation Copy

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. Jackson Pollock

Work Walk Painting Sides Way Ease More Part Feel Since Around Am Literally Floor Nearer Four

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Great Woman Painting Mad Some About Occasionally Get Her Awful

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now. Jimmy Carter

Good Long Picture Few Painting Too Bit Pretty Nest More Fact Taken Wrote Gotten Cover Years In Fact Interest Little Little Bit Painted Popular Paintings Novel Now Last Last Few Years

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? Karen DeCrow

Age Fight Mind Face Painting Sullivan Out Run Gilbert More Look Cheeks Around Comic Smooth Leaves October Green Hands Irony Gold Place Figure Paint Shows Suddenly Ear Brings

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame. Klaus Kinski

You Painting Frame Framework Need

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. Octavio Paz

Language Signs Pure Painting Everyone Seeks Recourse Attempts Shared Abstract Thus Pictorial Escape Essential Forms Meanings Languages

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available. Richard Diebenkorn

Grace Better Problems Stage Painting Difficult Would Superficial More Feel Obstacles Like Involved Am Overwhelm Any Just Where Want Available Moment Moments Now

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. Salvador Dali

Art Personality Painting Minute Part Infinitely

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business. Thomas Kinkade

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things. A. S. Byatt

You Little Things Painting Plot See About Through Shapes Like Looks Learn Sort Always Builds How Making Came Historians Up Tiny Different Fiction Whereas Happen Little Certain Certain Things Map Novelist Different Things Things

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting. Adolph Gottlieb

I found I have to stay painting. Alan Bean

Painting Stay Found

I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both. Alastair Reynolds

Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent forever, and none of his actions have any consequences, whether there is magic involved or not. Alexandra Petri

Man Innocent Young Rich White Painting Consequences Enough Giant Promising Magic Remain Involved Himself None His Forever Afford Gets Any Oil Whether Theoretically Actions

I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby. Alexis Denisof

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. Alfred Sisley

Problems Painting Animation Canvas Hardest

My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon, and you look at, like, the presentation of the food, and it's ridiculous. It looks like a Mondrian painting or something. Everything looks like a bunch of little Hello Kitty erasers when you eat a little bento box in Japan. It's so precise and beautiful and processed and neat. Ali Wong

Beautiful Food You Husband Painting Honeymoon Our Everything Eat Something Kitty Like Look Looks Box Bunch Precise Processed Little Japan Hello Ridiculous Neat Presentation

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