Quotes by Painting In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time. Bridget Riley painting focus space In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. Bridget Riley planes painting space A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again. Bryce Dessner again-and-again painting As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. Buffy Sainte-Marie painting teenager guitar The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop. Buffy Sainte-Marie painting keys enough The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. Buffy Sainte-Marie painting digital art I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless. Burton Silverman painting moments people I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. Caio Fonseca painting piano trying So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Caio Fonseca painting wall needs The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world. Caio Fonseca painting world art I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that I'm unwilling to let go of. I never dreamed that I would be making black-and-white paintings with so little embellishment. But it's been liberating in many ways to let go of that and yet see what I did want to retain. Caio Fonseca painting habit letting-go I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit on the percolating need for change that was already there. I got a little push. I did a group of the paintings early on that were among the best. It was sort of beginner's luck with these. Caio Fonseca painting luck artist I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet. Carolina Herrera painting inspiration book Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit. Caryl Churchill painting spirit mean The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. Caspar David Friedrich painting perception should The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead. Caspar David Friedrich painting sick artist I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. Catherine Deneuve painting architecture art I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting. Cecily Brown illusion painting movement I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing. Celia Imrie monet painting kings I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women. Chantal Joffe painting ideas thinking «23456789101112»