#painting

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do. ↗

— John Guare

#beautiful paintings #cost #go #how #human

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. ↗

— Philip Guston

#i #kind #like #miracle #need

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#imagined #magic #mind #moves #painting

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. ↗

— Keith Haring

#extent #fight #gravity #i #i think

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. ↗

— Lorenz Hart

#could #half #never #painters #paintings

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#caused #comes #finished #made #object

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#aim #create #deepest #emanate #experience

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#difficult #ignorant #know #language #make

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.
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— Jarod Kintz

#family #mom #mother #motherwell #painting

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. ↗

— Corita Kent

#each #get #harmony #inside #kind