Painting Quotes - Page 3

• El pintor construye, el fotógrafo revela.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Pain, Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). "On Photography", p.82, Macmillan.

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• Painting is an investigation of being.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Investigación

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sculpture, Best Picture, Approach

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

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• My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Color, Tiny, Use

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

  David Hockney

  Wall, Moving, Lasts

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• Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Drawing, Giving

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• One never paints violently enough.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Power, Enough, Paint

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• La vida es pintar un cuadro, no hacer una suma.

  Oliver Wendell HolmesJr.

  Vida, Arte, Dolor

  "The Class of '61" (speech), Cambridge, Mass., 28 June 1911

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• En el suelo estoy más a gusto. Me siento más cerca, más parte del cuadro, ya que así puedo caminar a su alrededor, trabajar por los cuatro costados y estar literalmente en el cuadro.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). "Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe", Kehrer Verlag

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• Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

  Edvard Munch

  Arte, Ojo, Alma

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• Qué extraña vanidad es la pintura; atrae la admiración por parecerse al original, no admiramos.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Vanity, Strange

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• Pinta un delfín en el bosque, un jabalí en las olas.

  Horace

  Dolphins, Woods, Wave

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.

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• For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

  Georges Rouault

  Art, Night, Laughing

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• Cada vez que pinto un retrato pierdo un amigo.

  John Singer Sargent

  Funny, Art, Truth

  Quoted in Evan Esar, A Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Pinto los objetos como los pienso, no como los veo.

  Pablo Picasso

  Arte, Carpe Diem, Pensamiento

  En John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60

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• Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, World, Painter

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.7

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• In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

  Paul Gauguin

  Suggestions, Done, Description

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• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Grandchildren

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• En cada cuadro se encierra misteriosamente toda una vida de torturas, de dudas, de horas de entusiasmo y de inspiración.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiration, Doubt, Enthusiasm

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Real, Water, Sculpture

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new.

  Igor Babailov

  Real, Moving, Splits

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• There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

  Philip Guston

  Misterioso

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• El pintor necesita todo el talento del poeta, además de coordinación mano-ojo.

  Robert Breault

  Ojos, Manos, Necesidades

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• What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Artist, People, Giving

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• There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Civilization, Drawing

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