painting

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

—Pollock, (Paul) Jackson

What has Reasoning to do with the Art of Painting?

—Blake,William

Theartof painting cannot betrulyjudgedsave bysuchas are themselves good painters; from others verily it is hidden even as a strange tongue.

—Du« r er, Albrecht

Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.

—Leonardo daVinci

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head†everything he paints is both an homage and a critique.

—Motherwell, Robert

   I do not find any difference between painting and sculpture except that the sculptor pursues his work with greater physical fatigue than the painter and the painter pursues his with greater mental fatigue.

—Leonardo daVinci

I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

—Alberti, Leon Battista

Good painting is like good cooking: it can be tasted, but not explained.

—Vlaminck, Maurice de

It was as if a veil had been torn suddenly away; I had understood, I had grasped what painting could be.

—Monet, Claude

On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be 'in'the painting.

—Pollock, (Paul) Jackson

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

—Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

—Stevens,Wallace

Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirsö or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife† Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!

—Rodchenko, Alexander

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

—Gainsborough,Thomas

Painting, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

—Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

  Alas! My dear sir, the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.Painting has been a smiling mistresstomany, but shehasbeenacrueljilttome.

—Morrissey full name Steven Patrick Morrissey

Your Lordship sends to tell me that I should paint and have no doubts. I answer that painting is done with the brain, not the hands.

—Michelangelo full name Michelangelo Buonarroti

Remember that a paintingöbefore it is a battlehorse, a nude woman, or someanecdoteöis essentiallya flat surface covered with colours assembled ina certainorder.

—Deniehy, Daniel Henry

A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

—Cellini, Benvenuto

No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

—Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y

  Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

—Leonardo daVinci

  Painting is nothing but a representation of surfaces and solidsforeshortenedorenlarged, and putontheplaneof the picture in accordance with the fashion in which the real objects seen by the eye appear on this plane.

—Piero della Francesca

The painting of sounds, noises and smells calls for: 1. Reds, rrrrreds, the rrrrrreddest rrrrrrreds that shouuuuuuut. 2.Greens, that can never be greener, greeeeeeeeeeeens that screeeeeeam, yellows, as violent as can be: polenta yellows, saffron yellows, brass yellows.

—Carra'  , Carlo

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

Inmyopinionpainting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

—Michelangelo full name Michelangelo Buonarroti

Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

—Moses'

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

—Rosenberg, Harold

   Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

—Berger,John Peter

According to Pliny, painting was brought to Egypt by Gyges of Lydia; for he says that Gyges once saw his own shadow cast by the light of a fire and instantly drew his own outline on the wall with a piece of charcoal.

—Vasari, Giorgio

   There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.You come to nature withyour theories, and nature knocksthemall flat.

—Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Painters who arenotcolourists produce illumination and not painting.

—Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Euge'  ne

The highest, the most logical, the purest and strongest form of painting is the mural† It is, too, the most disinterested form, for it cannot be made a matter of privategain; itcannot be hiddenaway for thebenefit of a certain privileged few. It is for the people. It is for.

—Orozco,Jose¤   Clemente

I get excited by the shape of a person's nose, the tone of their eyes, or the way their back looks when they're turned away from me. That's my reason for painting.

—Wyeth, Andrew Newell

   You can't learn architecture any more than you can learn a sense of music or of painting.You shouldn't talk about art, you should do it.

—Johnson, Philip Cortelyou

Yo soy un artista. El placer de la carne le resta fuerzas a mi vocacio¤ n  picto¤  rica, prefiero sentir que los jugos de mi sexo fluyen hacia un cuadro, lo irrigan, lo fertilizan, lo realzan; ca¤  strame el goce de la carne, satisfa¤  ceme el goce del arte. Iamanartist.The pleasure ofthefleshrobsstrengthfrom myartistic vocation, I prefer to feel my sexual juices flow toward a painting, wash over it, fertilize it, realize it; the delights of the flesh castrate me, the delights of art satisfy me.

—Fuentes, Carlos

This is the truth! In order to achieve this total painting, whichrequirestheactive cooperationof all thesenses, a painting which is a plastic state of mind of the universal, you must paint, as drunkards sing and vomit, sounds, noises and smells!

—Carra'  , Carlo

   One does not walk around a statue any more than one walks around a painting, because one does not walk around a figure to receive an impression from it.Nothing is material in space.

—Rosso, Medardo

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

—Annenberg,Walter H

You maydream freely whenyou listen tomusic as well as when you look at painting.When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

—Gauguin, Paul