#painting

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#feeling #giving #his #hope #i

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first. ↗

— Jason Newsted

#art #designed #done #enough #first

Inspiration is a byproduct of discipline... simply getting up everyday and planning, plotting, sketching, setting up or actually applying paint to a painting. ↗

— Beverly Claridge

#discipline #inspiration #painting #art

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#freedom #i #liked #more #painting

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study. ↗

— Ad Reinhardt

#i #know #painting #place #send

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities. ↗

— Ad Reinhardt

#art history #back #because #came #chinese

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. ↗

— Ad Reinhardt

#artist #connected #dozen #even #every

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. ↗

— Theodore Robinson

#difficult #directly #helps #mind #nature

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#i #painting #playing #started #teenager