Susan Minot Quotes

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

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

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.