Quotes About Painting

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

During the war, women without nylons drew lines up the backs of their legs to give the illusion of silk stockings. Painting over grey hair with spray-on root touch-up - or even dark eyeshadow - is the Covid-19 equivalent.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.

It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.

Es peor de lo que piensas, Don -, repuso Mort. - No sólo cada noche se pintan los amarraderos, sino que el momento de comenzar a hacerlo es determinado por la temperatura y la humedad, de modo que la pintura esté seca a la hora de abrir el parque a la mañana siguiente.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.

There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped--blood even on the hand that had not held the knife.

Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart.

You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie.

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.