Painting Quotes

I paint my own reality.

— Frida Kahlo

“it is myself I paint. My”

— Michel de Montaigne

Painting is very interesting.

— Sam Waterston

Painting is silent poetry.

— Plutarch

Paint the sky before you cry

— Lara Flores

Painting is a hobby for me.

— Renee O'Connor

Painting completed my life.

— Frida Kahlo

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

— Willem de Kooning

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

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

— Caio Fonseca

Your library is your portrait.

— Holbrook Jackson

“A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.”

— James D. Maxon

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

— Georges Seurat

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

— Pablo Picasso

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

— Klaus Kinski

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

My interest in India began with my interest in Indian painting and music and that grew.

— James Ivory

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

— Paula Scher

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish…

— John F. Carlson

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that…

— Jean Dubuffet

“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.”

— Christina Baker Kline

I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility…

— Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a…

— Colleen Atwood

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that…

— Gerhard Richter

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can…

— Clive Barker

Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai…

— Pierce Brosnan

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that…

— Caio Fonseca

Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing…

— Melanie McGrath

“You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only quick studies of course.…

— Rick Riordan

“[The graffiti] had a sort of Christmassy look to it. The green paint tended to be short top to bottom but long…

— Patricia Briggs

“From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord…

— Oscar Wilde

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will…

— Tamara de Lempicka

I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in…

— Gerhard Richter

If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like…

— Axl Rose