Painting Quotes · Page 49

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

— Brandon Boyd

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

— Walt Disney

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

— Gisele Freund

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.

— Robert Breault

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

— L. S. Lowry

“It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works.”

— Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers.

— Sidharth Malhotra

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

— Sylvia Kristel

I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and…

— Selena Gomez

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

— Pablo Picasso

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a…

— Rokia Traore

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell…

— Hans Hofmann

I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is…

— Godfrey

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more…

— Jackson Pollock

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re…

— Anonymous

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.…

— Jerry Saltz

If women have become innocent victims, if women running around today are unable to protect themselves, if the picture that we're painting,…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by…

— James Rosenquist

Students want to know, "Are you painting by the numbers, or are you really present as a human being to what you…

— Parker J. Palmer

I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at…

— Steve Kaufman

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves.…

— Antonin Artaud

Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them…

— Alasdair Gray

I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful…

— Taiye Selasi

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

— Anthony Quinn

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

— Brian Eno

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

— Grandma Moses

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

— Camille Pissarro

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

“Life's one big great canvas; you should throw all the paint on it you can,”

— Danny Kaye

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

— William C. Wright

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

— Barnett Newman

“What does the paint say?” she asked. “That this Comanche rides for war.”

— Catherine Anderson

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

— Miles Davis

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

— Helmut Newton

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

— Robert Rauschenberg