Erich Segal Quotes

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I always start a painting with the sky.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

I paint paintings of people.

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

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

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

I paint abstract expressions.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

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.

I wanted to be a painter.

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

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

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