#painting

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

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures. ↗

— Edwin Henry Landseer

#buy #i #i do #knew #much

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#into #itself #like #look #looks

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#first-rate #more #painting #second-rate #soup

Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just been dredged from the bottom of a lake. Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your frowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#painting #third-world-childhood #attitude

Inspiration is a byproduct of discipline... simply getting up everyday and planning, plotting, sketching, setting up or actually applying paint to a painting. ↗

— Beverly Claridge

#discipline #inspiration #painting #art

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#freedom #i #liked #more #painting

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #colours #oscar-wilde #painting #the-picture-of-dorian-gray

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting. ↗

— Kim Weston

#child prodigy #i #i tried #painting #prodigy