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Painting Quotes by Yves Klein
- I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison…
- The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he…
- I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what…
- I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
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