Quotes About Art

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

Easel painting means small painting.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.