75 Quotes Tagged: painting

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

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

I'm too intelligent to be a good painter; to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid - with the exception of Velázquez who is a genius.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many people are interested in the content. If you were painting a still life of some apples on a plate, it's like you'd be worrying whether the apples were sweet or sour. Who cares?

Que hablen de uno, aunque sea bien

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.