#painting

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#forces #hate #i #i believe #i believe that

A painting that is well composed is half finished. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#composed #finished #half #painting #well

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

#i #landscape #making #must #painting

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#among #because #bought #chiefly #contemplating

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. ↗

— Chuck Close

#bigger #color #colors #could #did

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #i think #include #intended #more

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

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. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#everything #inspiration #inspirations #just #just living

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life. ↗

— David Johansen

#bought #canvas #compelled #creatively #day