577 Quotes About Painting

My paintings come from darkness as much as light. There is so much more to the story than the bloom. If you see my beauty, you see my pain transformed in darkness through prayer and persistence.

While it is easy to say why one doesn't like a work of art, the sublime lacks explicability. One can talk about influences, brushwork, styles, but the real beauty of it comes from a place outside description. This was, in part, why the performance grated on me. They were talking too much for me to focus on what I'm not able to articulate.

Il y a dans le dessin une très grande jouissance. L'écriture, c'est le dessin noué autrement. (...) Et quand je dessine, j'écris, et, peut-être, que quand j'ecris, je dessine.

Every painting tells a story.

He touched the wall and the paint was cold so it probably needed another coat.

In themselves pictures are beyond words, beyond concepts, beyond thought, they invoke the presence of the world on the world's terms, which also means that everything that has been thought and written in this book stops being valid the moment your gaze meets the canvas.

A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul; the former is easy, the latter hard, because he has to represent it by the attitudes and movements of the limbs…The most important consideration in painting is that the movements of each figure expresses its mental state, such as desire, scorn, anger, pity, and the like. - quoted from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks

You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!

Time melting like a Dali painting