Peter Falk Quotes

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I have a BFA in illustration.

When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

Oh, I paint all the time.

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art.

I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I'd only have a page here or there where I was trying to figure out how to do comics.

I always love long shirt dresses with hand painting on it. It's just wonderful.

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the year as a glut from the Academy. I binge-watch all the nominated films. Painting fills that void now. It's oils. It's acrylics. It's figurative, portraits and landscape.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.