Painting Quotes · Page 182

“To put it figuratively, the role played by a logotherapist is rather that of an eye specialist than of a painter. A…

— Viktor E. Frankl

I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to…

— John Constable

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So,…

— Damien Chazelle

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they…

— Frank Stella

I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely…

— Hendrik Tennekes

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having…

— Terry Pratchett

Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by…

— Ken Danby

“It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty. The fresco…

— Kelsey Brickl

Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It…

— Lucian Freud

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me…

— Garry Winogrand

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint you suddenly wonder why in the world…

— Frank O'Hara

I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also…

— Stephen Beal

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is…

— Alice Neel

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of…

— Jeffrey Deitch

All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge…

— Piet Mondrian

I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation…

— Francisco Goya

Everybody has had the experience of something they love - whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie -…

— Will Sheff

Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things…

— Guy Consolmagno

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why…

— Oscar Wilde

“I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I…

— Aubrey Becker

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the…

— John Berger

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,…

— J. C. Chandor

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if…

— David Lynch

Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were…

— Clint Smith

The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane,…

— Herbert Read

Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives…

— Gerhard Richter

Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with…

— Richard Bach

Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the…

— Yuri Gagarin

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,…

— Michelangelo

Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad.…

— Tamera Alexander

One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no…

— H. L. Mencken

I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to…

— Marisol Nichols

“I struggle again to draw this man's face in a crowd of faces: which dog-eared lines and frayed adjectives do I use?…

— Dorit Rabinyan

“She sat up, cheeks flushed and golden hair tousled. She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. I always wished…

— Richelle Mead

“Sal and Henry return with a gust of warm garden air and I settle down to create miniature roses from sugarpaste using…

— Martine Bailey