Quotes About Painting

The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all hours of the day, at all times of the year, from Paris to the sea…Argenteuil, Poissy, Vétheuil, Giverny, Rouen, Le Havre.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

In the Italian galleries even the guides regularly fingered the paint surface.

Party Manners IT WAS the Easter holiday. Barney and Lou were doing some painting in the dining-room

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?

She looks soft, pretty, like a girl in a painting. Like a girl who fits inside her own skin.

A friend once suggested that I paint my own blue boat and name her Thirteen Whistling Pigs. I might not be as superstitious as some, but I'm not crazy.

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in my house. Every African vase I have is painted gold on the bottom. It's so fun and easy, and it instantly livens up a piece. You feel like you've really accomplished something.

I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.

When I think of Venice Beach, my father's painting is what comes to mind.

Jeff Hardy's site is literally his paintings and music; it has nothing to do with wrestling and is an artistic venture.

He paints a simple square house with a triangle roof that has an S inside, Because, Suzanne, you are my home.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.