- Nov 07, 2020
Painting Quotes
Reflections on painting, artistic unity, and building something new.
These quotes look at painting from a few angles - the idea that a piece should speak for itself, and the Bauhaus-era dream of folding painting into one shared creative discipline alongside sculpture and architecture. For more, browse Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Being Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.
- Spiritual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.
- Nov 07, 2020
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.
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- Nov 07, 2020