Only when he no longer knows what he is doing
does the painter do good things.
~DegasLife is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
~Danny KayeGenius is the ability to see things invisible,
to manipulate things intangible,
to paint things that have no features.
~Joseph JoubertWhen something needs to be painted,
it lets me know.
~Luis FrangellaSomehow the painting soothed him. It verified his fears.
But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.
~Timothy FindleyPainting is poetry
that is seen rather than felt,and
poetry is painting
that is felt rather than seen.
~Leonardo da VinciThe painter turns a poem into a painting;
the musician sets a picture to music.
~SchumannAbstract paintings must be as real as those
created by the 16th century Italians.
~Frank StellaThe painting has a life of its own.
I try to let it come through.
~Jackson PollackAbstract painting is abstract.
It confronts you.
There was a reviewer a while back who wrote
that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end.
He didn’t mean it as a compliment,
but it was.
~Jackson PollackA painting is never finished-
it simply stops in interesting places.
~Paul GardnerI’ve been doing a lot of abstract painting lately,
extremely abstract.
No brush,
no paint,
no canvas.
I just think about it.
~Stephen Wright