painting style Quotes

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

I've never done an anguished painting.

I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. I don't want to go blind doing what a printer can do.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I paint the American scene.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

I have never painted a recent picture.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

I never draw except with brush and paint.

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.