Best painting & my-own Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Robert Motherwell

“My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.”

My Own Animal Mystery Painting Reflection Companion Muse Nature And Animals

Author:Katherine Dunn

“I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.”

Ifs Looks My Own Rooms Deals Painting Draws Window Paint Curtains

Book:Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Source: Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne

“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.”

Should Made Stills I Can Feelings Lying My Own White Painting Scene Horse Grateful Paint Painter Instance Touched Strongest Associates Pencils Careless I Am Grateful Boyhood White Horse

Author:John Constable

“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

People Ifs Knows Humans May Whole My Own Conditions Loneliness Painting Communication Reflection Human Condition Lack Of Communication

Author:Edward Hopper

“I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Has Beens Interest Challenges My Own Break Conditions Media Painting Size Scales Mediums

Author:Lee Krasner

“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

“The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.”

People Ifs Said My Own One Thing Painting Source Mouths Hearing Again And Again Say Anything You Again

Author:Frank Stella

“I paint my own reality.”

Art Reality My Own Painting Paint

Book:Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced

Source: Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced

“If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.”

People Ifs Trying Heart Bigs Natural My Own One Thing Painting Involved Easier Productions Work Out Studios Chrome

Author:Peter Doig

“The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.”

Trying Sound Voice My Own Painting Tricks Mask Accurate Accents Sketching

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“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.”

Made Book Self Hands Purpose My Own Color Painting Concerned Thirds Originals Inward

Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.”

Ideas Matter Inspiration Song My Own Subjects Painting Periods Studios Performing Usual Juice Subject Matter Pouring

Author:Adrian Belew

“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.”

Feels Stills I Can Use My Own Views Study Painting Moved Photograph Mediums

Author:John Dyer

“Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.”

Want Mind Children Wanted School Fun My Own One Thing Painting Fame Finished Live Life Having Fun My Time

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.”

Needs Enough Artist My Own Imagine Love You Painting Paint Love Picture

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.”

Art Stills Care Purpose Artist Goal My Own Painting Don't Care Drawing Punk Temperament

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.”

Ideas Done My Own Taught Painting Shapes Decided I Realized Familiar

Book:Some Memories of Drawings

Source: Some Memories of Drawings

“At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.”

Ifs Writing Trying Has Beens Hands Age Wanted Young My Own Fronts Painting Shapes Young Age

Author:El-P

“I love you more than my own skin.”

My Own Love You Painting Skins I Love You Marble Frailty I Loved You Love You More Happy Friday Adore You I Love You More I Adore You Artist Love

Book:The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

Source: The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”

“I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.”

People Thinking Writing Use My Own Painting Letters Drawing Shocked Handwriting Drawing And Painting

Author:David Shrigley

“[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of course they can see that, but from my own point of view, I'd rather stay as neutral as possible.”

People Ifs Want Courses Interest My Own Views Objects Painting Intention Point Of View

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

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