Theodore Gericault Quotes

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

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

Art is a sense of magic.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I start a picture and I finish it.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

I will preach with my brush.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.