Chuck Jones Quotes

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

A great painting is a great painting.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

I really like the language of painting.

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I paint abstract expressions.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.