Quotes About Art

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Both my parents were painters.

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

Painters 'see' the world; musicians 'hear' it.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

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

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

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

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.