In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.
I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans do.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.
Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey
Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
