P Quotes
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“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”
“Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.”
“Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.”
“Painting kind of makes you forget your worries. It was a device that allowed me to detach myself from whatever negative thoughts popped into my head.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.”
“Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.”
Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
“Painting of love
This afternoon I saw a painting hanging on the wall,
It was of a maiden in the prime of her beauty,
The background was painted in rainbow colours, one and all,
I had every reason to admire the artists sagacity,
Her form looked perfect worthy of every appreciation,
Her eyes interacted with mine,
Her lips had a strong and intense red sensation,
And from her arose feelings divine,
Although it was just a portrait,
A still painting hanging on the still wall,
She was a feeling that moved through eyes into the heart without any freight,
And in me, just like other mesmerised onlookers, she did feelings of life and love install,
Maybe I only felt so, maybe I wanted to feel so,
Because her eyes, her form, her everything reminded me of someone,
And I imagined her in this painting on the wall, and I allowed my mind to believe so,
As long as she did not remind me of anyone, or everyone, but just her, my special someone,
So I sat there looking at the painting on the wall,
I admired the salient aspects of her colourful beauty,
And now I too was still, still like the painting and still like the dead wall,
Now, not the painting, but the stillness it exuded had become my new propensity,
Like a flower that is beautiful in the presence of the beauty that holds itself within it so still,
A state where all conflicts are exhumed and everything that represents profanity dies,
That is when this painting with million joys my heart fills in the life’s unforgiving mill,
And recreates her colourful visions within me, and now my life just on them relies,
So, I often visit the painting on the wall, still hanging there,
And maybe it will be so always,
Until one day I find it everywhere,
Because I wish to love her in a million ways, in the narrow lanes, on the byways and all the highways!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“Painting of love
This afternoon I saw a painting hanging on the wall,
It was of a maiden in the prime of her beauty,
The background was painted in rainbow colours, one and all,
I had every reason to admire the artists sagacity,
Her form looked perfect worthy of every appreciation,
Her eyes interacted with mine,
Her lips had a strong and intense red sensation,
And from her arose feelings divine,
Although she was just a portrait,
A still painting hanging on the even more still wall,
She was a feeling that moved through eyes into the heart without any freight,
And in me, just like other mesmerised onlookers, she did feelings of “life in love” install,
Maybe I only felt so, maybe I wanted to feel so,
Because her eyes, her form, her everything reminded me of someone,
And I imagined her in this painting on the wall, and I allowed my mind to believe so,
As long as she did not remind me of anyone, or everyone, but just her, my special someone,
So I sat there looking at the painting on the wall,
I admired the salient aspects of her colourful beauty,
And now I too was still, still like the painting and still like the dead wall,
Now, not the painting, but the stillness it exuded had become my new propensity,
Like a flower that is beautiful in the presence of the beauty that holds itself within it so still,
A state where all conflicts are exhumed and everything that represents profanity dies,
That is when this painting my heart does with million joys fill,
And recreates her colourful visions within me, and now my life just on them relies,
So, I often visit the painting on the wall, still hanging there,
And maybe it will be so always,
Until one day I find it everywhere,
Because I wish to love her in a million ways!”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.”
“Painting, Photography, Drawing. From Africa and Its Diaspora' by Elisa Pierandrei a book that pays equal attention to aesthetics, process, medium and the artist as a human in the world (and not only an artist from 'Africa’)”
“Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.”
“Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.”
“Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation
for greater living and greater relationships.”
“Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.”
“Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.”
Source: Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work
“Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.”
“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.”
Source: Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde
“Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.”
“Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.”
“Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.”
Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.”
Source: Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles
“Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.”
“Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.”
“Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new.”
“Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.”
“Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.”
“Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.”
“Painting taught literature to describe.”
“Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“Painting the words of my soul
Across the skies
Under the stones
Leaving a trail for you to see
Calling out loud, “Here I am! Can you see me?”
Anxiously waiting; hoping to be heard
Meaning what I say; every single word
Painting the words of my truth
Beginning with me, and
Ending with you
Leaving a trail for you to see
Loudly painting, “Here I am! Can you see me?”
“Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.”
“Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.”
“Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.”
Source: Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon: det unika med att vara en människa
“Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.”
“Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.”
“Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.”
“Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.”
Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981
“Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.”
Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin
“Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.”
Source: Ben Nicholson
“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?”
Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien
“Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.”
“Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism.”
“Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.”
“Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.”
“Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.”
Source: Lee Krasner
“Painting, I think it's like jazz.”