Painting Quotes · Page 105

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

— Gerhard Richter

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

— Prince Charles

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

— Josh Hartnett

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

— Jules Olitski

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

— Aldous Huxley

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

— Michelangelo

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

— Alexej von Jawlensky

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn…

— Walter J. Phillips

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a…

— John Berger

If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You…

— Mary Beard

The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never…

— Augustus John

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to…

— Arthur Boyd

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's…

— Ken Danby

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing,…

— Alice Walker

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form:…

— Joan Mitchell

“Claude Monet's Water Lilies (The Clouds) consists of nothing more than dabs of different colored paint on a canvas.14 But because of…

— Christian Smith

...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer.…

— Gregory Maguire

In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or…

— Roger Scruton

“And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and,…

— Marcel Proust

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real…

— Beau Willimon

The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other…

— Alex Grey

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not…

— Gerhard Richter

When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say…

— Kehinde Wiley

Life is like a canvas. It begins blank and every day is like another brush stroke.

— Babloo

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

— Yvette Mimieux

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

— Robert Regis Dvorak

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

— Joe Lycett

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

— Frank Capra

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

— Robert Indiana

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I…

— Jaron Lanier

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

— Grace Hartigan

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

— Jil Sander

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

— Sam Ewing

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

— Yanni

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is…

— Pablo Picasso