Peter Brook Quotes

My painting does not come from the easel.

I want paint to work as flesh.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

I wanted to be a painter.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it looks like when it's done.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Drawing is the root of everything.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.