#painting

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#again #art #art form #form #good

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#doing #life #painting #picture #sum

Writing and Painting are the same for me. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#painting #same #writing

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#art #art college #attractive #canvas #college

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

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#forget #laugh #life #me #night

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#attack #color #different #different directions #directions

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #manipulation #most #painting #power