Best ends & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.”

Art Ends Education Talent Painting Machines Feds Factories Academy

Author:Edvard Munch

“I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.”

People Ends Suffering Painting Solitude Studios Locks Private Life

Book:Drawings

Source: Drawings

“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.”

Ends Language Painting Difficulty Noble Peculiar Vehicle Expressive Invaluable Technicalities

Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

“I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.”

Ifs Years Ends Left Achieve Havens Painting My Time Worthwhile

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.”

People Ends Facts Stories Feelings Father Painting Please Letters Died Father Died Please Me

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.”

People Thinking Art Important Ends Painting Art Is Importance The End Of The Day Looking Back Looking Forward

Author:Damien Hirst

“One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.”

Ends Feelings Emotion Painting Landscape

Author:Sidney Nolan

“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you see.”

People Ifs Want Ends Facts Values Painting Argument Paint Canvas Pins Humanistic Old Values

Author:Frank Stella

“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.”

Mean Ends Sides Effects Painting Paper Conscious Embrace Mere Paint Strive Technique Expressive Means To An End Mannerisms

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Want Mind Ends Sometimes Painting Twenties Paint Starting Things To Do Fifteen Finishing

Book:Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

Source: Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

“There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.”

Mind Ends Reason Accepting Risk Painting Convinced Wiser

Author:Richard Schmid

“Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.”

Ends Worry Painting Golden Bridges Gates Drafting Golden Gate Bridge

Author:Peter James

“If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.”

Ifs Giving Ends Might Painting Giving Up Keep Going Don't Give Up Follow Through

Author:Andrew McDermott

“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”

World Way Art Book Real Ends Eye Artist Numbers Pieces Painting Art Is Edges Determine Determined Boundaries Subtle Real World Frontiers

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.”

Ends Stories Three Process Perfect Painting Built Depth Unconscious Pathways Dreamworks

Author:Billy Cannon

“Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.”

Ends Use Objects Painting Balls Paint Boards Rulers

Book:Jasper Johns: according to what & watchman

Source: Jasper Johns: according to what & watchman

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