Best painting & process Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.”

Process Levels Stage Painting Including Oneself Various Deeper

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.”

Facts Might Process Perfect Creation Painting Habit Painter Retiring Dissatisfaction Completion Insufficiency

Author:Lucian Freud

“I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.”

Process Interest Hell Painting Not Interested

Book:Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles

Source: Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles

“When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.”

Process Painting Patterns Abstract Realistic Echoes Parallels Abstract Painting

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Made Feelings Remember Process Painting

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.”

Book Process Imagination Painting Listening Paint Flight My Imagination Audio Audio Books

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.”

Courses Process Goal Creative Painting Creative Process

Author:Don Farrell

“The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.”

Process Possibility Painting Offers Infinite Just One Unification

Author:David Luiz

“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.”

Action Artist Process Clear Painting Communication Drawing Visuals Mechanic Sculpture Spectators

Book:Drawing and Sculpture

Source: Drawing and Sculpture

“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.”

Wells Long School Artist Process Media Dog Creation Painting Photography Performances Cameras Backgrounds Setting Video Settings Collaboration Fascinated Sixty Installation

Author:William Wegman

“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

“Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.”

Ifs Knows Trying I Can Might Form Process Behinds Painting I've Learned Being Afraid Diving

Author:Lori Goldstein

“Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.”

Want Littles Lasts Next Process Progress Seeing Painting Take Time It Takes Time Slow Progress

Author:Ali Banisadr

“The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).”

Artist Energy Process Painting Drawing Release Remarks Procedures Printmaking

Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.”

People Process Comedy Minutes Painting Miles

Author:Jonathan Winters

“With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.”

World Doe Order Process Building Painting Photography Opposites Complexes Photographer Photograph Block Simplify Building Blocks Synthetic

Author:Stephen Shore

“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.”

“I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.”

World Long Different Process Born Results Careers Creative Painting Oil Technique Knives Canvas Artwork Inner World

Author:Leonid Afremov

“The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing. Whatever that is, it is what I want to do.”

Want Giving Film Lost Process Painting Creating Give Me Drawing Things In Life Just Being Creating Something Painting And Drawing

Author:Ellar Coltrane

“Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.”

Art Use Artist Process Challenges Creativity Alive Painting Wall Art Is Bravery Insight Frightening Status Quo Feedback Boldness Painting Art

Author:Seth Godin

“Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.”

Trying Action Lasts Process Acting Forever Fronts Painting Grain Comes And Goes Ephemeral

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.”

Art Actors Process Strange Painting Photography Connected Architecture Painter Filmmaking

Author:Wim Wenders

“My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.”

Thinking Feels Process Painting Degrees Tools Drawing Sculpture Fondness Carving Erasers

Author:Robert Longo

“For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.”

Ideas Together Process Interesting Struggle Painting Elements Tests Working Together Going To Work Executing

Author:Laura Owens

“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.”

Thinking I Can Self Dream Process Painting Unconscious Psychoanalysis

Author:Malcolm Morley

“I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying to render what you see you are not entering into a transformative process. And that's what makes a good painting: the process of transforming and the willingness to leave reality behind.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Reality Process Interesting Behinds Painting Perception Willingness Entering Transforming Perception Reality

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.”

Men Made Process Differences Attitude Taken Streets He Man Painting Skills Photography Photograph Invention Traditional Schemes Selection Synthesis

Author:John Szarkowski

“The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.”

Way Want Mean Ends Process Results Painting Creating Means To An End

Author:Jackson Pollock

“I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.”

Thinking Should Kind Art Made Ideas Play Process Painting Ready Projects Sculpture Gallery

Author:Cory Arcangel

“Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.”

Writing Done Process Painting Sake Visuals Journal Journal Writing

Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

“When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.”

Process Painting Ancient Arise Layers

Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous

“People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Done Artist Asks Process Fashion Painting Developing Ask Me Designer Architect Fashion Designer

Author:Zaha Hadid

“[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it is in this respect like a painting which takes a long time where you are very aware of what you are doing in the process. Exposure is only the final act of making the image as a photograph.”

Long Process Painting Long Time Conscious Finals Photograph Where You Are Exposure Rapids Snapshots

Author:Thomas Struth

“The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.”

Ifs Process Creative Painting Creative Process

Author:Annie Dillard

“I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.”

Process Painting Masters Educational Shade Texture

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.”

Way Different Culture Fun Stuff Process Love Is Interesting Painting Evolution Popular Culture Contemplative Disposable

Author:Kehinde Wiley

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