Best moving & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”

Ifs Humans Soul Earth Moving Spirit Animal Wonder Tree Figures Painting Flower Delight Painter Hills Landscape Limbs Fullness Human Soul Petals Figure Painting

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.”

Lasts Moving Painting Wall

Author:David Hockney

“Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.”

Light Moving Form Turns Space Painting Balance Lucky Draws Relation Paint Anxious Surprising Actuality Methodology Lucky Day

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.”

“A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.”

Humans Wells Heart Done Moving Emotion Records Effects Emotional Painting Moved Ill Landscape Human Heart Splendour Landscape Painting

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!”

Men Said Faces Moving Audience Painting Fantastic Sat Spokes Brushes Hovering Moving Closer

Author:Robert Genn

“So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.”

Long Art Moving Force Nature Deals Emotion Modern Painting Highest Aspect Ancient Objectives Aesthetic

Author:Lawren Harris

“Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.”

Wells Moving Painting Backwards Tense Rough Times Present Tense

Author:Joe Bradley

“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.”

Mind Real States Body Moving Given Pieces Movement Painting Quiet Horse Instant State Of Mind Gestures

Author:Deborah Butterfield

“It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.”

Mind Important Eye Moving Painting Importance

Book:The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009

Source: The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009

“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.”

Should Real Moving Emotion Modern Painting Offers Reactions Instant Something New Educate Splits

Author:Igor Babailov

“Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.”

Moving Technology Painting Tvs

Author:A. J. Jacobs

“Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.”

Giving Looks Has Beens Made Seems Moving Modern Century Painting Comparison License Modernism

Author:James Elkins

“Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.”

Sometimes Light Eye Moving Courses Pay Painting Busy I Realized Fog

Author:Cory Trepanier

“Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition... I do not believe... that this belittles my own personality.”

Trying Believe Moving My Own Painting Masters Personality Guides Mentor Select Revision Terrain Belittle Ammunition Guide Me My Own Personality

Author:Rico Lebrun

“With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.”

Doe Art Body Moving Alive Blood Movement Color Painting Variety Works Of Art

Author:Joseph Raffael

“I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.”

Firsts Inspiration Moving Desire Artist Motivation Painting Waste Wasting Time

Author:Nita Engle

“the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.”

Moving Desire Night Loss Secret Beauty Painting Wall Elements Longing Contemplation Sunset Buyers

Book:Catherine Carter: A Novel

Source: Catherine Carter: A Novel

“By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.”

Moving Painting Amount Areas Contrast Observers

Author:Mike Svob

“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Film Moving Turns Sound Strange Painting Wind Unique Mouths Mood Layers Portraits Captured Mona Lisa Celluloid

Author:David Lynch

“The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.”

Mind Moving Pieces Magic Painting Illusion Surface Planes

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

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