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Painting Quotes by Robert Genn
- In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.
- This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
- The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry,…
- My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come…
- Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working…
- Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
- An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.
- I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not…
- Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.
- Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
- Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.
- Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was…
- I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is…
- I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire…
- A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
- Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that…
- A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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- 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