Painting Quotes · Page 101

“I often paint self-portraits for it is I that know myself best-Freida Kahlo.”

— Anonymous

“This is the way of our work: We cannot help but color it with the paint of our feelings, both good and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

— Joseph Raffael

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

— Jules Olitski

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

— Georgia May Jagger

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.

— Timothy Findley

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make…

— Glenn O'Brien

“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you…

— Bob Ross

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever…

— Lenny Breau

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to…

— Andy Summers

My father was also a painter - actually, a traditional Chinese painter. His personality is pretty timid and cautious. Like him, I…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how…

— John Green

There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must…

— Robert Henri

The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In…

— Gerhard Richter

I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever…

— Scarlett Johansson

I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves…

— Laurie Simmons

“After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis,…

— Ambroise Vollard

I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic…

— E. J. Hughes

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one…

— Pablo Picasso

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company.…

— Larry Gagosian

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

— Francesco Clemente

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

— Paul Gauguin

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes…

— Joan Miro

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

— Joshua Reynolds

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

— Joni Mitchell

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

— Penelope Cruz

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

— Cat Deeley

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

— Katherine Bernhardt

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne

Laid it on the ground, paint done got wetter. More fifteens in my trunk than Marcelle's Quinceaneara.

— Riff Raff

“The teaching of actual painting could be outsourced to China and taught via SKYPE.”

— John Seed

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the…

— Winston Churchill

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

— Cy Twombly