Painting Quotes · Page 108

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

“What does the paint say?” she asked. “That this Comanche rides for war.”

— Catherine Anderson

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

— Barnett Newman

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

— Helmut Newton

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

— Miles Davis

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

— William C. Wright

“Good art is like a sexy pair of lips—it has the potential to say so much, but prefers to have you do…

— Jarod Kintz

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between…

— Kate Walsh

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things…

— Francis Bacon

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own…

— Patrick Swift

People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where…

— Neville Brody

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the…

— William Zinsser

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of…

— Winston Churchill

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies…

— Thomas Gainsborough

“It’s not visual. He’s not. You know him by his work, for one thing, and that part is visual, I suppose, isn’t…

— Vicki Covington

The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really…

— Erin Wasson

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience…

— David E. Cooper

“I pass trays of spun-sugar animals, little acorn cups filled with wine, enormous sculptures of horn, and a stall where a bent-backed…

— Holly Black

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in…

— Plutarch

No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left…

— Adolf Hitler

The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way…

— Thomas McDonell

[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,…

— Tertullian

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander

I'm one of those people who can't sit still. I like to be doing something. I cook; I've been painting.

— Jimmy Barnes

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

— Frank O'Hara

“But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,”

— Monique Martin

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

— Serj Tankian

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

— Thomas A. Edison

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

— Willem de Kooning

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

— Howard Hodgkin

“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

— Howard Hodgkin

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had…

— Igor Stravinsky

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the…

— Leon Battista Alberti