Quotes by Painting I never really separated painting and literature. Cy Twombly painting literature Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not. Cynthia Daignault painting america fiction Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably something wrong and it's not finished. And if I really feel like I understand it then I'm done with these paintings and I'll have to do something else. Damian Loeb painting kind done Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken up in anyone else's life, so I've got to understand this one. The only skill I was given is this painting. Damian Loeb painting done Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap and easy. If it's cheap and easy, then upper classes aren't going to aspire to it. So, they have to find something more esoteric. I wanted the paintings to be realistic enough that you would have the ability to forget that I'm showing them to you. Damian Loeb painting beautiful art Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I make the collages or the images for ideas that I want to paint, it's like an Ouija board. Each painting I do is trying to understand what the hell I'm looking at, or want to look at. Damian Loeb painting different trying The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel. Damien Hirst spots painting You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. Damien Hirst nervous painting greatness A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. Damien Hirst increase painting cost If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career. Dan Fox outsiders painting creative Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it. Dana Gould painting fire house The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories. Daniel B. Shapiro painting stories reality I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish. Daniel Craig fishes painting fishing What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced? Daniel J. Boorstin painting age art Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty. Danny Fox painting dirty thinking The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it. Danny Fox painting spirit trying Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings. Danny Fox solitary painting needs People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like. Daryl Palumbo painting giving people It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't. Dave Hickey painting obligation used My paintings are rubbish. David Bailey rubbish painting «56789101112131415»