Compass Quote by Joe Bradley

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

“We’re striking out mostly blind, using a compass and a series of old sketches that have been passed back”

— Lauren Oliver

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied…

— Julian Schnabel

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

— Thomas Kinkade

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you…

— David Hockney

I have an excellent internal compass.

— Hugh Bonneville

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it.…

— Walter J. Phillips

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares,…

— Bridget Riley

What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting.…

— Milton Resnick

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

— Kehinde Wiley