
“I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.”
As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 61
Some Notes on Caravaggio (1956)
“I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.”
As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 61
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
Addressing an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times (11 May 1967); often this is quoted without the humorous final sentence.
Context: A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Schilderen is.. ..nooit een afbeelding geven der stoffelijke zaken, maar een psychische functie, een uiten hoe zijn geest [van de kunstenaar] reageert ten opzichte der dingen. Dat is dus een heel verschil met: schilderen is de schoonheid der dingen laten zien.
Quote of Jan Mankes in a letter to his maceneas A.A.M. Pauwels in The Hague; as cited by J.R. de Groot in 'De bekoring van het gewone - Het werk van Jan Mankes https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ons003199001_01/_ons003199001_01_0014.php', p. 102
undated quotes
quote of 1948
1942 - 1948
Source: Movements in art since 1945, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson 1975, p 32
On writing.
Booknotes http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1107 television interview (July 5, 1992)
“A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.”
As quoted in 'Mark Rothko', Dorothy Seiberling in LIFE magazine (16 November 1959), p. 82
1950's
p, 125
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
Address to the Harvard Alumni Association to the Class of '61, in Speeches (1913), p. 96.
1910s
After defeating Andy Roddick in the Australian Open 2007 semi-final. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/6297737.stm