Best painting & seeing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.”

Art Country Wanted Artist Fun Realizing Class Seeing Inspire Painting Art Class

Author:Edward Ruscha

“It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.”

Eye Fall Enjoy Steps Seeing Painting Appreciate Miracle Yards Patches Puzzling Impressionism Impressionists

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is like seeing a landscape or, better, a richly realized painting of a landscape dotted with figures. But that would leave out their music, which would be a loss. This is a wise and graceful book by a well-traveled woman who knows how to confront deep feeling and frame it to make it all the more intense.”

“Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.”

Film Seeing Painting Very Happy Cubism

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.”

Feelings Romance Seeing Painting Interpreting

Author:Andrew McDermott

“You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.”

Ideas Left Born Space Brain Seeing Painting Activity Shapes Structure Mood Realization Colour Entering Engaging Hemisphere

Author:Guido Molinari

“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

“I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.”

World Real Shows Remember Seeing Painting Portraits Abstraction

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe

“... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.”

Seeing Painting Insight Staring Imperfection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.”

Art Important Self Wanted Form Fun Seeing Painting Type Highest University Drawing Related Abstract Rejects Pretentious Surrealism Abstract Painting

Author:Neil Farber

“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.”

Knows Looks Art Stills Ends Eye Artist Dark Careers Too Much Seeing Painting Safe Comfortable Tired Details Warm Blindness Needles Miniatures

Author:Ian McDonald

“The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.”

Ideas Hands Eye Seeing Objects Painting

Author:Malcolm Morley

“Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.”

Wife Seeing Painting Rose France Aversion Austria

Author:Allen Lacy

“Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Would Be Three Interesting Morning Study Seeing Painting Fine Clock Endeavor Throwing Fine Arts Throwing Things

Author:Ben Schnetzer

“The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.”

Way Mother Fire Seeing Painting Nine Forests Impulse Distress Disturbed Dealing With It Forest Fires

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.”

Art Shows Remember Next Taken Seeing Painting Transformed The Next One Matisse

Author:Anthony Caro

“Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.”

World Kind Children Turns Wife Seeing Painting Moon Sitting My Wife Beach Buddy Old Friends Bonfire

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.”

Eye Church Seeing Painting Catholic Guilt Saint

Author:Nan Goldin

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