Quotes by Painting I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. Alexej von Jawlensky painting saws soul I always start a painting with the sky. Alfred Sisley painting sky The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. Alfred Sisley canvas painting problem Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work. Ali Banisadr painting way thinking It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more. Alice Cooper painting fit use 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. Alice Neel painting privilege mean There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm. Alton Tobey painting musical color I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result. Alvin Langdon Coburn painting results photograph Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce painting weather art Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. Amos Oz painting language literature Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it. Amy Sillman painting done It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me. Amy Sillman painting instinct trouble I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not. Amy Sillman painting That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore. Amy Sillman painting problem done Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made. Ananda Coomaraswamy tangible painting art Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. Andre Breton modern painting metaphor The substance of painting is light. Andre Derain painting substance light To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. Andre Malraux painting voice feels Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them. Andre Malraux painting criticism reality The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent. Andrew Graham-Dixon neurosis painting world «1234567891011»