577 Quotes About Painting

Painting is an alternative when there is no more pages left in the journal.

i painted it because i dreamed itbecause we all dreamed it

why do you paint in the dark'i ask himand he looks not at mebut away'because i cannot bear my own darknessin the light'he is quiet for some time'but inwardly i am told wherethere is paint to beand i paint it there in the darkso none can see myself trulyburning in the sun

All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death, and through the surrender of one's will and love of self. But that's no good to me, I like to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life—artificial, if you like. Yes, real life would be something else, but I don't think I belong to that category of souls who are ready to live, and also ready to suffer, at any moment.

For colour is one of the most rapturous truths that can be revealed to man.

He painted until his cursive brushes were only whispers of rawness on the thin ivory. Only the walls and the ravens that watchedknew the boy with the paint-stained palms weaved his art onto his sketchpad on the park bench at lunchtimes, and only the treeswhispered it like a prayer.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

While I began my career as a painter in the early 1980s, I became increasingly curious about the possibilities promised by digital tools - so I switched my traditional media for computer equipment. Digital Camera, 2017

Technology also made some of the established principles of image-making meaningless, such as the idea that symmetrical images are more static and perhaps less interesting than asymmetrical images. Symmetry is easier to achieve with mechanical means, so I used my collection of digital tools to break the rules, explore perfect symmetry and create repeatable patterns. Digital Camera, 2017