Duncanson Painting Quotes

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later. ~ John Cage

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work. ~ Andrew Wyeth

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.' ~ Thomas Kinkade

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling ... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony ... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy. ~ Richard Diebenkorn

I am able to make a contribution ... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting. ~ Morris Graves

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. ~ J.G. Ballard

For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing. ~ Nathan Oliveira

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye? ~ Elizabeth Kostova

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up. ~ Ambroise Vollard

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. ~ J. M. W. Turner

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school. ~ Kurt Wagner

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist. ~ Pierre Soulages

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

Pretty as a painting, but thorny as a rose. ~ Jean Zimmerman

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. ~ Ernst Haas

Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence. ~ Keith Devlin

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. ~ Oscar Wilde

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. ~ Damien Hirst

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. ~ John Burnside

The celebrations go on for many hours,' said the woman. Above her, in the sky, a firework exploded, showering multi-coloured flames across the stars. 'You can pay fealty at any time.' Another firework tore open the sky, streams of colour painting the woman's shift blue and green, throwing their shadows downwards. For a moment, the woman's shadow self moved against the shadow Fillingham, pressing to him, and then another explosion above them sent them dancing apart, wavering, their edges rimed with yellow and reds, and then the woman was moving again.
("The Cotswold Olimpicks") ~ Reggie Oliver

Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles. ~ Serena Sutcliffe

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks. ~ Damien Hirst

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. ~ Salvador Dali

I created "Bouquets In Fantasia" when I was strictly painting in the genre of "Fantasy Flower Art". ~ Minnelli Lucy France

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain ... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk ... ~ Graham Sutherland

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics. ~ Richard MacDonald

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession ... to create a living religion in landscape painting. ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism. ~ Harold Rosenberg

He never looks you straight in the eye; or if he does, it is somehow vaguely, indefinitely; he does not pierce you with the hawk's eye or the falcon's gaze of a cavalry officer. The reason for that is that he sees, at one and the same time, both your features and those of some plaster Hercules standing in his room, or else he imagines a painting of his own that he still means to produce. That is why his responses are often incoherent, not to the point, and the muddle of things in his head increases his timidity all the more. ~ Nikolai Gogol

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you're painting. ~ Lee Krasner

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps? ~ H.R. Giger

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. ~ David Hume

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years ... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it. ~ Andrew Wyeth

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, ~ Andrea Illy

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. ~ Matt Smith

You're not a possession," he said raggedly. "You can't be passed from one man to another like a painting or an antique vase."
Her voice was faint. "That's not how it is."
"Has he told you he wants you?"
"Not the way you mean. He... he's a gentleman..."
"I want you with my entire body." West dragged his mouth over hers, shaping her lips before settling in for a rough and ardent kiss. He hitched her up against him until her toes barely touched the floor. "You're all I think about. You're all I see. You're the center of a star, and the force of gravity keeps pulling me closer, and I don't give a damn that I'm about to be incinerated." He rested his forehead against hers, panting. "That's what he should tell you. ~ Lisa Kleypas

I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture. ~ Guity Novin

We praise the singer, not the composer.
We admire the painting, not the painter.
We judge by the cake's icing, not its bread.
We evaluate the workers, not their head.

We rate highly the cuisine, not the chef.
We point fingers at others, not our self.
We look at peoples' faces, not their hearts.
We always assess the ends, not the starts. ~ Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

I followed the older woman out to the foyer. Taking the stairs, I scanned each painting that lined the walls. I stilled as I found a portrait that could only have been Nathaniel. He looked young and brash, no more than fifteen. His suit was painted in a regal colour, it set off his tanned skin and sky blue eyes.
"Handsome devil was he not?" Bess chuckled. "Or should I say, 'is he not'?"
I fought the urge to blush as I trailed after the housekeeper. ~ Freedom Matthews

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. ~ Ansel Adams

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete. ~ Prince

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. ~ Pierre Bonnard

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not ... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting. ~ John Gutmann