621 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything. Chris Lilley

Work You Too Much Painting Think Too Ruin Everything Way Instinctively Like Affects Much Things

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively. Chris Ofili

Art You Better School Finished Painting Think Other Others Would Some Something Similarly Only Constructed Layers Individual Underneath Were Lots Art School Than Often Realise Worked Many Painters Paintings

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. Chuck Close

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance. Chuck Close

Painting Evidence Performance Frozen

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space. Chuck Close

Lie Space Painting Magic Most Makes Transcendent Where Media

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. Chuck Jones

World Painting We Cannot Three-Dimensional Does Cannot Plane Brings Two-Dimensional

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy. Colin Farrell

Myself Painting Guy Modest Down-Home

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. Corita Kent

World Rest Painting Universe Other Relates Harmony Kind Inside Total Only Piece Answerable Get Tastes Little Each Symbol

When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it. Damian Loeb

Try Painting Took Back Later Months Out Photos Through Put Particular Pictures Come Sort Different Them Figure Why

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. Damien Hirst

Thought Painting Gave Secretly Would Rembrandt Been Up Then

I've been painting since I was a kid. Dan Amboyer

Painting Kid Since Been

I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways. Dana Schutz

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality. Dana Schutz

Personality Painting Starts About Excited Feel Feels Like Real Really

I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture. Daniel Wu

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't. Dave Hickey

You Obligation Painting Guess Some Understand Front Stood Used Now

I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea. David Allee

Me Thought Painting Kind Would See Window Windows Instead Almost Idea Like Looked Real Were Wall Often Cool

I did painting before I did photography. David Bailey

Photography Before Painting Did

I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on. David Cage

Video Games Theatre People Wish Move On Painting Approach Way Would More More People Poetry Point Point Of View Take Industry Same Move Video View Games Help Filmmaking

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. David Hockney

Easel painting means small painting. David Hockney

Painting Small Means

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