Painting Quotes

“I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.”

“Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.”

“It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.”

“No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see.”

“The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.”

“Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.”

“Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.”

“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”

“It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.”

“Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.”