Painting Quotes · Page 3

An empty canvas is full.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Sunlight is painting.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“bathroom to brush her”

— Isley Robson

I want to die painting.

— Paul Cezanne

I'm a painter in sound.

— Brian Eno

I used to paint.

— Gauri Khan

I paint in order not to cry.

— Paul Klee

I am not a juicy painter.

— Andrew Wyeth

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

— Benjamin West

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

— Frida Kahlo

The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

— John Singer Sargent

It looks better in person... I swair lol

— Jade

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

— Grandma Moses

You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.

— L. S. Lowry

“Instead of looking for the rainbow...paint it yourself..”

— Lenita Vangellis

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer

“Well, then, let’s not just trust the likelihood based on painting.”

— Socrates

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

— William Baziotes

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

— Damien Hirst

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

— Lee Krasner

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

— Michael Leunig

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

She paints a loving picture, but there's a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas her wrist.

— Ify Amaechi

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just…

— William Hazlitt

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your…

— Richard Schmid

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable…

— Marsha Norman

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with…

— Carolee Schneemann

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks…

— Mario Sorrenti

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in…

— Edvard Munch

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,…

— Andre Breton

Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in…

— Alex Katz

I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by…

— Guillermo del Toro

I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do…

— Diora Baird

Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives.…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them, they behaved very…

— Theodore Roosevelt

My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent…

— Freydoon Rassouli

I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's…

— Damian Loeb