Quotes About Art

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

I found I have to stay painting.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.

I hate painting.

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

I create music; I create painting; I create whatever I want to create. I create, what you say, clothes. I create, I don't know, dance move. I create anything.

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together, but painting fish sounded boring.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.