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Painting Quotes

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution Picture Quote #1

I suppose what you’re doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can’t think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting Picture Quote #1

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out Picture Quote #1

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness Picture Quote #1

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques Picture Quote #1

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I’m taking part in a noble tradition Picture Quote #1

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If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong Picture Quote #1

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect Picture Quote #1

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I’m convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am Picture Quote #1

Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle Picture Quote #1

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world Picture Quote #1

I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I’ve accomplished something useful Picture Quote #1

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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it Picture Quote #1

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid Picture Quote #1

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn’t favor the stability and spatial demands of painting Picture Quote #1

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present Picture Quote #1

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway Picture Quote #1

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you’re sort of entering into a shared space Picture Quote #1

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I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it’s easy to fall into a sort of pastiche Picture Quote #1

Technology’s always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting Picture Quote #1

The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you’re painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn’t make painting any easier. And it doesn’t make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand Picture Quote #1

When there’s a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It’s like if you go into a bar and there’s a television on, you can’t take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It’s where my eye settles Picture Quote #1

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I’m of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can’t do anything else. I’m still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human Picture Quote #1

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make Picture Quote #1

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I’m interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don’t fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that’s how this project was born Picture Quote #1

It’s a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there’s a lot of things you don’t do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint Picture Quote #1

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete Picture Quote #1

The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal Picture Quote #1

The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I’ve gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it’s begun Picture Quote #1

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape Picture Quote #1

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Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution (Painting Quotes) I suppose what you’re doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can’t think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting (Painting Quotes) I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out (Painting Quotes) A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness (Painting Quotes) This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques (Painting Quotes) Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I’m taking part in a noble tradition (Painting Quotes) If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong (Painting Quotes) So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect (Painting Quotes) There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I’m convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am (Painting Quotes) Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle (Painting Quotes) Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world (Painting Quotes) I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I’ve accomplished something useful (Painting Quotes) I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it (Painting Quotes) I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid (Painting Quotes) As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn’t favor the stability and spatial demands of painting (Painting Quotes) There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present (Painting Quotes) I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway (Painting Quotes) I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you’re sort of entering into a shared space (Painting Quotes) I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it’s easy to fall into a sort of pastiche (Painting Quotes) Technology’s always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting (Painting Quotes) The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you’re painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn’t make painting any easier. And it doesn’t make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand (Painting Quotes) When there’s a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It’s like if you go into a bar and there’s a television on, you can’t take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It’s where my eye settles (Painting Quotes) Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I’m of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can’t do anything else. I’m still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human (Painting Quotes) I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make (Painting Quotes) I’m interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don’t fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that’s how this project was born (Painting Quotes) It’s a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there’s a lot of things you don’t do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint (Painting Quotes) The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete (Painting Quotes) The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal (Painting Quotes) The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I’ve gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it’s begun (Painting Quotes) What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape (Painting Quotes)

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