Best stills & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.”

May Stills Painting Technique Meat Flats Thrill Painting A Picture

Book:Black paintings

Source: Black paintings

“I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.”

Stills Movement Painting Illusion Exciting Tricks Fixed

Author:Cecily Brown

“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.”

Humans Looks Persons Stills Character Artist Order Individual Memories Simple Behinds Effects Painting Depends Response Who We Are Simple Truths

Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

Giving Stills Lines Space Painting Expression Materials Paint Quests Manuals Still Life Tactile Cubism

Author:Georges Braque

“I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.”

Made Stills Hard Painting Determination Absence Selling Contracts Dealer Salons Your Absence

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.”

Should Stills Pleasure Painting Appreciate Discarded Time Goes By

Book:Monet

Source: Monet

“Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.”

Firsts May Littles Stills Principles Study Painting Painter Colour Grounded

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.”

Stills Values Design Color Painting Drawing

Author:Matt Smith

“The successful painter is continually painting still life.”

Stills Successful Painting Painter Still Life

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.”

Stills Values Painting Stronger Painter Subtle

Author:John F. Carlson

“I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.”

Stills Important Seems Able Found Objects Painting Composition Still Life

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”

Humans Stills I Can Different Age Certain Cases Painting Singing Capacity Tradition Dancing Profession Make Sense Human Capacity

Author:Gerhard Richter

“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”

Knows Mean Stills Painting Paint Privilege Profession Obsession

Author:Alice Neel

“No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.”

Want Stills Matter Use Painting Eternal Aspect No Matter What Technique Meaningful

Author:Dan Thompson

“Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.”

Stills Self Light House Powerful Painting Shots Sight Mirrors Various Bedroom Portraits Bathroom Lit Catching Bulbs Light Bulb Self Portrait Morbidity

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.”

Stills Matter Feelings Painting Musical Drawing Clarity Still Life

Author:Jacob Collins

“Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.”

People Way Looks Stills Together Watches Teaching Painting Masters Train Studios Drawing Instruction Alright Pupils Programmes Monasteries

Author:Paul Cezanne

“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

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