painting styles Quotes

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

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 paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

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

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter. I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.

I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.