#painting

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. ↗

— John Erskine

#books #done #everything #government #lets

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. ↗

— David Bowie

#back #completely #felt #i #just

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#confusion #done #finished #just #know

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#being #being done #couple #days #doing

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 an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#concrete #consist #essentially #existing #only

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#forms #ideal #negation #painting #realism

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. ↗

— Michael Graves

#did #i #i see #invention #moral

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#get #i #own #paintings #powerful

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #enviable #enviable position #every #feel