#painting

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #painting




Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.


Balthus


#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.


Jean-Michel Basquiat


#best #completely #ever #had #i

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.


Jean-Michel Basquiat


#awful #get #great #her #i

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.


Max Beckmann


#blindly #body #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

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.


Max Beckmann


#already #each #enough #hardly #i

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.


Max Beckmann


#appeared #constantly #me #only #painting

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.


William Blake


#fettered #fetters #flourish #human #human race

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.


Maurice Blanchot


#delectable #display #isolates #like #lovers

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.


Rose Byrne


#art #big #big change #book #call

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.


Paul Cezanne


#damned #difficult #got #haven #painting