Painting Quotes · Page 46

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

— Francis Bacon

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the…

— Dennis Prager

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

— Jackson Pollock

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

— Paul Valery

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

— Paul Cezanne

My goal with the makeup line was that you wouldn't have to use brushes. Fingers are my favorite thing.

— Willam Belli

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when…

— Matthew Modine

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which…

— Giorgio Morandi

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,…

— Joe Bradley

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will…

— Charles Demuth

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good…

— Elizabeth Bishop

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using…

— Dan Colen

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of…

— Rosanne Cash

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space…

— Frank Stella

Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light…

— Jo Baer

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or…

— Lee Krasner

“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the…

— Megan Rich

I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and…

— Peter Greenaway

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy…

— Walter Pater

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship,…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd…

— Lee Krasner

I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated…

— Wade Guyton

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

— Robert Hughes

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

— Peter Doig

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

— Gerhard Richter

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

— Steven Soderbergh

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

— Josh Hartnett

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

— Prince Charles

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

— Mark Vonnegut

One of my sisters is a hardcore painter; another is hardcore into CrossFit.

— Chloe Fineman

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

— Ben Eine

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

— Woody Allen

I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.

— Mouni Roy

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

— Chuck Close

“You'll never end up in a museum if you spend your whole life painting fences.”

— Connor Chalfant