Painting Quotes · Page 47

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

— Domenico Gnoli

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

— Robert Rauschenberg

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

— Steven Wright

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I…

— Lisa Hanawalt

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more…

— Charles Saatchi

“There was all the difference in the world between this planning airily away from the canvas and actually taking her brush and…

— Virginia Woolf

I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking…

— Autumn de Forest

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to…

— Pierre Soulages

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and…

— Loretta Lux

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and…

— John Kricfalusi

When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters…

— Frederick Lenz

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

“I had this dream that my life was a rolling canvas. Everyday it rolled off the sheet, bleached white, into the beach…

— Charles Martin

“God Is The Artist Of Your Landscape Will things always work out in the way you hope and want? Of course not!…

— Cheryl Zelenka

“My descendants will manage without my portrait' she smiled. Anyway they'll have plenty of photographs of me. To this our famous conductor…

— Anatoli Rybakov

When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does…

— Lewis Mumford

I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting…

— Vincent Van Gogh

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or…

— Marcel Duchamp

You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like…

— Neill Blomkamp

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I…

— Jaron Lanier

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

— Robert Indiana

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

— Frank Capra

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

— Joe Lycett

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

— Grace Hartigan

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

— Yvette Mimieux

Life is like a canvas. It begins blank and every day is like another brush stroke.

— Babloo

And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

— Robert Regis Dvorak

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

— Jules Olitski

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

— Michelangelo

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

— Alexej von Jawlensky

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

— Aldous Huxley

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

— Willem de Kooning