Painting Quotes · Page 103

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

— Caio Fonseca

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

— Edward Hopper

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

— Lucian Freud

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

— Claude Monet

You don't have to get all the way into the paint to still draw attention or get contact.

— Jrue Holiday

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

— Oprah Winfrey

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

— Robert Indiana

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is…

— William Merritt Chase

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or…

— William Blake

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at…

— Grimes

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find…

— Idris Khan

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just…

— William Shatner

I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me,…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

David Hockney is best known for his work with paint and canvas, but he has also worked in media as diverse as…

— David Sheff

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter…

— E. M. Forster

Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not…

— Gerhard Richter

Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to…

— Richard North Patterson

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour…

— Michelangelo

“For a moment, I saw that set of paints Elain had once bought me with the extra money she'd saved. The red,…

— Sarah J. Maas

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can…

— Jean Renoir

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…

— Christopher McDougall

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

— Pierre Bonnard

I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

— Douglas Portway

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

— Pablo Picasso

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

— Terry Crews

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

— Edouard Vuillard

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he…

— James Whistler

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

— Vincent Van Gogh

My goal with the makeup line was that you wouldn't have to use brushes. Fingers are my favorite thing.

— Willam Belli

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

— Paul Cezanne

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

— Peter Doig

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

— Robert Hughes

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

— Paul Valery

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

— Jackson Pollock

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the…

— Dennis Prager