P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.”
Source: Robert Rauschenberg
“Painting is an alternative when there is no more pages left in the journal.”
“Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings”
“Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.”
“Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.”
“Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.”
“Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.”
Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.”
Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”
“Painting is an investigation of being.”
Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.”
“Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.”
“Painting is another form of thinking.”
“Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.”
“Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.”
“Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.”
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”
Source: The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay
“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
“Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.”
“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.”
“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
“Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.”
“Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.”
Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
“Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.”
Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne
“Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.”
“Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.”
“Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.”
“Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.”
Source: Essential Van Gogh
“Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.”
“Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.”
“Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.”
Source: This Earth of Mankind
“Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.”
“Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.”
“Painting is more important than art.”
“Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.”
“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”
“Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.”
“Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.”
“Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.”
“Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
Source: Picasso
“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“Painting is not only painted canvas, it's being filled of artist spirit.”
“Painting is not therefore an imitation of objects. The reality of the external world acts as a point of departure, but painting takes the skin off this reality in order to touch the mind.”
Source: Decoding Magritte
“Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.”
“Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.”
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”