Painting Quotes · Page 44

“The teaching of actual painting could be outsourced to China and taught via SKYPE.”

— John Seed

Laid it on the ground, paint done got wetter. More fifteens in my trunk than Marcelle's Quinceaneara.

— Riff Raff

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

— Joni Mitchell

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

— Penelope Cruz

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

— Cat Deeley

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes…

— Joan Miro

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

— Joshua Reynolds

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for…

— E. J. Hughes

“Fancy clipped a scrap of newsprint to her canvas and wrote, I don't have friends. Ilan's hand covered hers briefly as he…

— Dia Reeves

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one…

— Julian Schnabel

I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation,…

— Dichen Lachman

Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or…

— Chris Martin

“So, what do you photograph?” I swallow my wine. “What?” “You know – city scapes, nature, portraits, candid shots...” Boobs. I photograph…

— Iris Blaire

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around…

— Billy Joel

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks…

— Kehinde Wiley

“And speaking of passion," his breath floated over my lips, "I've found one that has nothing to do with paints and canvas."…

— Tess Oliver

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about…

— Bruce Cockburn

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded…

— Robert Indiana

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Morbid anatomy is essential to training and research, but leads many doctors into thinking that life is an agitation in something essentially…

— Alasdair Gray

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do…

— Seth Godin

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may…

— Christopher Moore

I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation…

— St. Lucia

It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in…

— Mikaela Shiffrin

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

— Pablo Picasso

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

— Kehinde Wiley

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.

— Jeremiah Brent

All through the 'Guttertown' record, there's happy, there's sad, there's strange - and I'm painting that picture.

— Hank Williams III

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

— Dolley Madison

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

— Anastasia Soare

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

— Robert Orben

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is…

— Kami Garcia

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

— Amy Sherald

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

— Samuel Barnett

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

— Robert Motherwell

Just like the brush in the painters hand we have no idea where we are.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Every job is a self portrait of a person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

— Anonymous