Quotes About Painting

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

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.

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.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

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

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

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.

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.

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

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'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.

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.

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

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

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.