Chris Milk Quotes

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

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

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

I used to paint.

Drawing is the root of everything.

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.

Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

A truly great artist has many talents.