Robert Ingpen Quotes

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

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

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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 like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.