Painting Quotes · Page 100

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

— Jackson Pollock

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

— Banksy

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

— Jack Levine

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

— Rebecca Miller

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

— H. R. Giger

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the…

— David Rockefeller

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter…

— Leonardo da Vinci

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which…

— Brian Eno

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

— Tunde Adebimpe

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a…

— Fred Durst

Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it…

— Yasunari Kawabata

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could…

— Joe Average

A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to…

— John Slattery

“The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of…

— Jeffry R. Halverson

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward…

— Joshua Reynolds

“I studied the way the individual flowers clustered around the single stalk, their sharp points fitting together like pieces of a puzzle.…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,…

— Chitra Ganesh

Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything..…

— Paul Cezanne

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the…

— Robert Motherwell

I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical…

— John Lurie

Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

— Ken Danby

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

— Christopher Willard

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was…

— Toyin Odutola

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

— William Butler Yeats

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took…

— Andy Serkis

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

— Alfred Sisley

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.”

— Leonhard Emmerling

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

— Donald O'Connor

“Every craft is a self portrait of the maestro who does it. Autograph your work with greatness.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

— Walter Savage Landor

There's a new paint on the market. It's called Blonde. It's not very bright, but it spreads easy!

— Nikhil Saluja

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

— Alberto Moravia

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

— Kehinde Wiley