Akhil Sharma Quotes

I paint abstract expressions.

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

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

I paint the American scene.

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

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

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

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.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

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.

After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

I really like the language of painting.