Max Liebermann Quotes

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

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

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.

If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there's a tradition of light in art, especially painting.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.'

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.