Quotes by Painting Each painting evolves freely and independently. Fernando Araujo Perdomo unique-experiences painting freedom When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. Fernando Botero painting art moving This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting Fernand Leger painting assuming understanding I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting. Fernando Botero painting pleasure found There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing. Ernest Hemingway true-things painting wells My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint. Floyd Cooper painting shapes use My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. Francesco Clemente portraits painting half The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation. Francisco Goya painting salvation art Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist. Francisco Goya titles painting art When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. Francois Cavanna painting ceilings trying Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees. Francis Bacon interpretation painting It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it. Francis Bacon painting communication doe When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. Francis Bacon painting pleasure passion Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. Francis Bacon canvas painting patterns We only have our nervous system to paint. Francis Bacon nervous painting paint If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently. Francis Bacon painting return looks All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve. Francis Bacon accidents select painting A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. Frank Stella sculpture painting cutting Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries. Frank Gehry painting use ideas As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it? Frank Stella painting world thinking «1112131415161718192021»