#painting

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

#afresh #again #damn #every #generation

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. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#am #art #doing #end #i

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#excite #irrespective #matter #me #paintings

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#choice #gives #i #look #me

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#been #goal #never #object #original

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. ↗

— John Malkovich

#anything #concentrate #few #filmmakers #get

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. ↗

— Frank Stella

#imitating #learns #looking #other #painters

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#me #more #much #painting #than

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it. ↗

— Otto Dix

#create #desire #doing #got #i

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#everything #exciting #exciting time #happening #heard