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Painting Quotes by John Berger
- 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…
- All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.…
- Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.…
- Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became…
- The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which…
- Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art…
- What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our…
- You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally…
More Painting Quotes
- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat