Quotes by Painting I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. David Bowie painting way art Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting. David Hockney photoshop painting When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. David Hockney realising painting drawing Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes. David Hockney painting mean thinking Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years. David Hockney painting drawing years I sort of feel that the role of a portrait in society is to represent the sitters, we see paintings of Shakespeare and we believe that it is what he looked like, well maybe a little older, fatter and with a higher hairline. I guess it would be cool if the portraits that were painted really did look like the sitter or expressed some sort of emotion that gave the viewers in the future a sense of the sitter's pathos at the time it was painted. David Kassan painting emotion believe Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. David Hume painting study taste I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders. David Hockney painting order Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? David Hockney diploma painter painting I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. David Hockney mediums painting drawing All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. David Hockney painting matter art My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. David Hockney doing-nothing painting worry The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes. David Luiz possibility painting infinite Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn. David Luiz burning painting sometimes Anything is good painting material once you get to know it. David Milne painting materials knows A man posing for a painting. David Hume empathy painting men I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. David Lynch christmas-love painting tree A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting. David Lynch painting hate thinking Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting. David Salle fluidity painting connections People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a way of being in the world that painting brings to us, that painters bring to the task that we absorb and are able to be in dialogue with. That's something that's part of us. David Salle painting people world «678910111213141516»