P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally.”
“Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.”
“Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.”
Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous
“Painting from life was incredibly important for me because it allowed me to train my eyes to see everything that is there. But I realized early on that painting from life wasn't something that I was all that invested in. I was always more interested in the painting than I was the people. For me, removing that as a compulsion offered me a lot more freedom to actually paint and think about color, form, movement, and light.”
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
“Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.”
“Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had”
“Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.”
Source: Lectures on the English comic writers, and Lectures on the English poets
“Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.”
“Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want to. Subconsciously or not, the figures I paint are a reflection of myself and whatever mood I am in at the time, so every painting is in essence a self-portrait.”
“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.”
“Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.”
“Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.”
“Painting imparts new wings
And my mind soars high;
Imagination glitters the alleys of my mind
And I fly, fly, fly...”
“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”
“Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.”
Source: Thoughts and Adventures
“Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.”
“Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.”
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
“Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.”
Source: What Painting Is
“Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.”
“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”
“Painting is a hobby for me.”
“Painting is a jeu d'esprit.”
Source: Pablo Picasso und Marie-Thérèse Walter: zwischen Klassizismus und Surrealismus
“Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.”
“Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.”
“Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.”
“Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.”
“Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.”
“Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.”
“Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.”
“Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.”
“Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.”
“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
“Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.”
“Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.”
“Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?”
Source: John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science
“Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.”
“Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.”
“Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.”
“Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.”
“Painting is a state of being.”
Source: Jackson Pollock
“Painting is a strange business.”
“Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.”
“Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.”
“Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.”
“Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.”
“Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.”