Painting Quotes · Page 102

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

— Swami Satchidananda

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

— Craig Robinson

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

— Washington Allston

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

— Andrew McDermott

Every job is a self portrait of a person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

— Anonymous

There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm.

— Nina Dobrev

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

— Wilhelm Bode

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

— Amy Sherald

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't…

— Raymond Pettibon

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel…

— Deb Caletti

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience…

— Joe Berlinger

“He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of…

— Sarah Hall

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils…

— Paul Laffoley

You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent…

— Pam Brown

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it…

— Herman Melville

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use -…

— Jackson Pollock

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words;…

— John Ruskin

With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a…

— Philippe Halsman

I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes,…

— Paula Rego

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff,…

— Banksy

I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the…

— Franz Marc

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

— Samuel Barnett

Just like the brush in the painters hand we have no idea where we are.

— Ritu Ghatourey

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

— Robert Motherwell

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

— Anastasia Soare

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

All through the 'Guttertown' record, there's happy, there's sad, there's strange - and I'm painting that picture.

— Hank Williams III

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

— Dolley Madison

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is…

— Kami Garcia

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

— Robert Orben

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

— Pablo Picasso

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for…

— E. J. Hughes

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

— Kehinde Wiley

Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.

— Jeremiah Brent

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

— Peter Greenaway