P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.”
“Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.”
“Painting is saying "Ta" to God.”
“Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.”
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Source: Jackson Pollock
“Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.”
Source: Adolph Gottlieb
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
“Painting is silent poetry.”
Source: Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer
“Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.”
“Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.”
“Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.”
“Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.”
“Painting is so much more than the materials.”
“Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.”
“Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.”
“Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.”
“Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.”
“Painting is something that takes place among the colors.”
Source: Letters on Cézanne
“Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.”
“Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.”
“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”
Source: Picasso
“Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.”
“Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.”
“Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.”
“Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.”
“Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.”
“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”
“Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.”
“Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why good paintings are incomprehensible. Creating the incomprehensible has absolutely nothing to do with turning out any old bunkum, because bunkum is always comprehensible.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.”
“Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.”
“Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.”
“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.”
“Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.”
Source: Bacon
“Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.”
“Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.”
Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from
“Painting is the science of the mind, where we create something new from confusion and present beauties with colors, Poetry is the best form of painting mostly overlooked, and the mind's painters uses coruscations of brilliancy to present different images by words”
“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
Source: My Name Is Red
“Painting is the subject of painting.”
“Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.”
“Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Painting is very interesting.”
“Painting is with me but another word for feeling.”
Source: John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science
“Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.”
Source: Bridget Riley: dialogues on art
“Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself... Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you. Certainly not the Museum of Modern Art.”
“Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.”
“Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.”
Source: The surrealist Picasso
“Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.”
Source: Picasso and photography: the dark mirror
“Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.”
“Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.”