My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.
Drawing & Painting Quotes (903 Quotes)
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
It felt good to run the ball like that, but when you lose a game like this to one of your division rivals, it hurts. It's back to the drawing board.
Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
Of all the great battles in which I had the honour of drawing my sword for the Emperor and for France there was not one which was lost. At Waterloo, although, in a sense, I was present, I was unable to fight, and the enemy was victorious. It is not for me to say that there is a connection between these two things. You know me too well, my friends, to imagine that I would make such a claim. But it gives matter for thought, and some have drawn flattering conclusions from it.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
Basically, he has to go back to the drawing board ... to have another go at it, ... It's not a crisis or a complete disaster. It's a mess and it's a humiliation.
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.
I love painting.
If we later on decide to make reproductions of the original, we enter a new stage in the life of the painting whereby we make prints.
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form.
All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils.... As soon as I have carried out my program for Germany, I shall take up painting. I feel that I have it in my soul to become one of the great artists of the age and that future historians will remember me not for what I have done for Germany, but for my art. Note Other Nazis who were frustrated artists Goebbles was an obscure poet in his youth Funk was a musician Baldur von Schirach wrote verse Rosenberg dabbled in architecture.
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
And I make paintings that are totally different, and drawing is something different too. That way, I'm not limited, doing the same thing. There's always a thread of the artist in there, though. I just kind of make what comes out.
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
We've got everything from oil painting, photography and blow glass to jewelry and ceramics. We could have 130 artists here, but only the best of the best make it in.
There is no Plan B. We will have to go back to the drawing board.
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
There's nothing like it that can combine the things that are there, ... The art of drawing and painting ... music, dance, storytelling. All of these things in one package.
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting.
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
At this point, we're not really worrying about Berkeley. We have a number of other issues through injuries and trying to replace people. We're kind of drawing back right now and trying to get people ready.
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
This is a farce. Whose plan is this It's not the public's. They need to go to the drawing board and include the public.
Arts professionals described the measure as long overdue. Artists donate to cultural nonprofits or other nonprofits, and all they get is the cost of their materials, ... If you have a painting that's worth 5,000, you may be able to deduct 20 for the canvas.
It would give us the best linear park in the United States and increase the drawing power of the river ... that would make this City even greater.
On the main drag, painters and drawers will be found, but exotic wood sculptors will also pull in a crowd. I take exotic woods and make funky furniture, ... One of my favorite pieces I'm showing this year is a ying-yang curio that's four-feet in diameter. The doors are in that (ying-yang) shape and there are two shelves that seem like they're floating and are the dots.
I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.
We had hoped that the people of Florida would have an opportunity to speak on this question, whether they want self-interested politicians drawing their own districts. We just have to go back to the drawing board.
When you're in a country like that - the architecture, everything is infused with the importance of religion. The art itself is just incredible. The architecture, the painting, the sculpture.
All gardening is landscape painting.