John Ruskin Quotes

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Art is really more musical than it is visual.

Painting is very interesting.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

Painting is more important than art.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.