Quotes About Art

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.

I started painting when I was in high school.

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.

I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!'

I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I get paid for it.

No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more.

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is a whole life.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.