David Choe Quotes

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

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

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

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

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

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

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.