577 Quotes About Painting

When you are putting out a competitive lineup, it's like painting a picture for the judges.

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Basically painting is total idiocy.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.