Alexander Calder Quotes

I paint abstract expressions.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

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

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

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 seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

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

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

I paint paintings of people.

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

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

Artists need to express.