“I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.” FeelsStillsI CanUseMy OwnViewsStudyPaintingMovedPhotographMediums Author:John Dyer
“I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.” IfsFirstsI CanDoneWould BePaintingInstinctDrawingRight ThingEraseBecause I CanIllustration Author:Francis Bacon
“Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."” ThinkingLooksI CanSometimesShowsDreamRememberCan DoRealizingMorningSawsPaintingWake Up Author:Julian Schnabel
“I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.” WantNeedsI CanTogetherPaintingWall Author:Florence Welch
“I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.” WorldWantFeelsBelieveArtI CanMovingUsedFunI BelieveEnjoyToo MuchNicePaintingArt IsDon't BelieveI Believe InDrawingNeighborhoodNervesTouchingShedMeditatingRenounceChuckDrawing And Painting Author:Jim Woodring
“My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.” ArtI CanSchoolRememberPaintingMomHigh SchoolMy MomDrawingTraditionalPainterGapsGraffitiDrawing And Painting Author:Alec Monopoly
“The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.” ThinkingMenTryingI CanShowsNextFunClearDoorsTreeHe ManPaintingOne DayLowsCleanPaintWoodsColourBrownBurnedDrearyJust For Fun Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.” ThinkingI CanSelfDreamProcessPaintingUnconsciousPsychoanalysis Author:Malcolm Morley
“The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsWellsHas BeensMadeI CanProblemAbleBeautifulEnjoyLosesCreativityFailingPaintingOffersProjectsCapacitySurpriseMona LisaBeautiful Paintings Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to do something. Whether it is painting, writing, acting, shopping, going to the gym, being with friends, going out - I just am a very active person. I have a lot of friends and I travel a lot.” ThinkingWritingPersonsI CanActingPaintingActiveGet UpGymShoppingGoing OutLots Of Friends Author:Joan Collins
“A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.” I CanShowsMoralPaintingThousandFortuneBlow Book:Timon of Athens Source: Timon of Athens
“I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.” I CanStuffSimplePaintingPianoClassical Music Author:Danny Fox
“The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.” FeelsTryingI CanHardSpiritPaintingMarkOver It Author:Danny Fox
“I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.” FirstsI CanShowsWantedPaintingPlatesInhibitions Author:Julian Schnabel
“The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them.” KnowsWantGivingMadeI CanDoneEnoughArtistTurnsPaintingIntentionStoresBrilliantObsessedMuseumsReally GreatGarageAntiquesLockersStorageWrong TurnGarage Sale Author:Jennifer Coolidge
“What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came from. I can't accept the fact that the concept of art as our concept of humanity is expanding.” ArtI CanFactsHumanityAcceptingPaintingArt IsConceptsSizeExpandingConceptual Art Author:Lawrence Weiner