Top 1200 Painting A Picture Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

I naturally gravitate toward the big picture which isn't necessarily advantageous when you go on to a career in research because successful researchers usually choose a pretty narrow channel. So having tunnel vision actually helps you stay where you are supposed to stay. The big picture in medical care was looking at the underlying causes of all of this pathology. I really wanted to do something about that and play a meaningful role in changing the trajectory of people's lives and their health and by changing their health, changing the quality of their lives.

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

This act of piss, which can be considered sexual by some, a pleasurable experience, is at the same time total disrespect. I had once asked a friend to do this picture and he totally refused. So I carried the idea around with me for years. When I was invited to do a Honcho shoot, I approached Phillip, who was the barman at The London Apprentice, and fortunately he knew who I was. He had a copy of my first book, and that broke the ice. At the end of the shoot with him, I realized I could ask him to do this picture. I had waited four years to do it.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

Painting taught literature to describe.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I really prize and love great painting.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of the particular image at a particular size. The Parlor needed to be large because I wanted it to feel like a full-size room you could step into. Unfortunately for me, I paint the same way on an eight-foot canvas as I do on a five-inch miniature. I still use very tiny brushes and noodle every square inch. It took me nearly a year to paint The Parlor.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

There is no standard way of using painting techniques.

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

When in doubt, make a red painting.

I painted myself out of my painting.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.

Painting is more important than art.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I love playing poker, reading, and painting.

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

We must always apologize for talking painting.

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

I do one painting per day, I've always done that.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

My painting does not come from the easel.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.