Painterly Quotes

#1. For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

Wanda Koop

#2. Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings ...

Jean-Francois Chevrier

#3. Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

Marshall McLuhan

#4. It is through color changes that we go forward ... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.

Wolf Kahn

#5. Everything was numbered: the lenses, the painterly sky, the milligrams of my panic pills. I had prescription eyes that allowed me to see better, and prescription panic pills that allowed me to play blind.

Jalina Mhyana

#6. 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.

Frank Stella

#7. Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

Donald Lambert

#8. Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

Jerry Saltz

#9. Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Jerry Saltz

#10. Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#11. Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

#12. I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It's a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.

Thornton Willis

#13. It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#14. There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

Marlene Dumas

#15. I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'

Claes Oldenburg

#16. I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

Jerry Harrison

#17. Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#18. I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

Tim Ryan

#19. All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

Hudson Taylor

#20. In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Michael Jackson

#21. An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West

Laina Charleston

#22. I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive .

Mitt Romney

#23. God will not be mocked.

Ezra Taft Benson