“Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.” IfsWellsImpossibleSubjectsPaintingJokesGreen Author:Pablo Picasso
“I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.” FeelsImpossiblePaintingFinishedPowerlessFinishing Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.” WayImpossiblePaintingEdges Author:Howard Hodgkin
“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.” TryingHumansTwoIdeasCoursesHuman BeingsImpossiblePaintingPlanetsTasksComplexesPaintSurfaceAbsurdOrganismsPortraitsPortraiture Author:David Cobley
“During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair.'” SaidMotherPresidentWifeImpossiblePaintingHairPaintFormerInterviewsHobbiesPresident George W Bush Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.” IfsTryingLooksSoundImpossiblePaintingPerceivePatheticDescribing Author:John Lennox
“It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.” TwoLastsHouseSidesHoursAttentionGonePiecesImpossibleStreetsCarPaintingShopsCracksAbandonedNew OrleansRottingMattresses Author:Banksy
“I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensDoneUsePastPracticeImpossiblePaintingComputerAidsDrawingScalesPlanningColourTransformedStampsComposingInstallationPostagePostage Stamps Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.” TryingChildrenNightPassionSoundSpaceEmotionBehindsImpossiblePaintingHappeningsSurprisePaintRingsBarsBreastsLionsScreamTigersRocketsChunks Author:Karel Appel
“The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.” MomentsImpossiblePaintingCapablePhotographTechniqueAnalogiesExpressiveConveying Author:Edouard Vuillard
“For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm so happy there that I wanted to make a painting about it almost just to share with my friends, but it's so difficult when all your feelings are one way, and they're very sort of happy and pleasant. It's impossible to make a painting about it.” WayYearsFeelingsWantedDifficultFiveImpossibleSharePaintingSixMy FriendsOne WayPleasant Author:Nate Lowman