Quotes by Painting The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel. Eduard Hanslick painting italian body No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. Edouard Manet painter painting care One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor Edvard Munch chapel painting artist It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. Edvard Munch ten painting holes I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me. Edward G. Robinson painting found art My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. Edward Hopper intimate painting artist Well, I have a very simple method of painting. Edward Hopper method painting simple Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. Edward Kasner painting mathematics symphony When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge! Edward Hopper painting week goes-on Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. Edward Hopper deals painting At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace. Edward Lucie-Smith embrace artistic painting When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings. Edward Ruscha desert painting mountain Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation. El Greco universality painting speculation If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings. Elizabeth Bishop painting looks world Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? Elizabeth Barrett Browning painting photography The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. Dennis Prager painting issues arguing That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time. Elizabeth Peyton painting forever art Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings. Elizabeth Peyton communicate painting emotion There is no perfect painting and there is no perfect solution. Elliott Hundley painting solutions perfect I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me. Ellsworth Kelly painting window art «910111213141516171819»