Painting Quotes · Page 107

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

— Mason Cooley

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...

— Claude Monet

“Life's one big great canvas; you should throw all the paint on it you can,”

— Danny Kaye

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

— Camille Pissarro

When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

— Brian Eno

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always…

— Norman Rockwell

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw…

— Nick Carter

“But I do not think we can wait for painting. This place is dangerous for us. Perlain is already impatient with us.…

— Emily Rodda

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions…

— Robert Genn

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its…

— Henri Matisse

More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

— Guillermo del Toro

In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure…

— Guity Novin

“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student,…

— Stanley Fish

“The unconventional is dangerous at times, but we must...splash our personal canvasses with bold strokes and daring colors and give no thought…

— Asim Khan

“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my…

— David Sedaris

I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in…

— Laura Owens

Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his…

— William Kurelek

“look at the painting again. Despite the obvious differences, this girl is deeply, achingly familiar. In her I see myself at twelve…

— Christina Baker Kline

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that…

— Ingmar Bergman

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

— Grandma Moses

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

— Anthony Quinn

“It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works.”

— Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

— Sylvia Kristel

The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers.

— Sidharth Malhotra

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

— Michael Heizer

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting...

— Steven Curtis Chapman

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

— Ranveer Brar

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

— Erin Morgenstern

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

— Edgar Degas

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

— Yves Klein

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

— Ken Danby

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

— Caio Fonseca

“You'd think someone who could see the beauty in nature and capture it on canvas could see mold on the shower tile.”

— Beverley Andi

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

— John Ruskin