Alice Levine Quotes

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.