Painting Quotes · Page 50

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

— John Ruskin

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

— Caio Fonseca

“You'd think someone who could see the beauty in nature and capture it on canvas could see mold on the shower tile.”

— Beverley Andi

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

— Ranveer Brar

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

— Michael Heizer

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting...

— Steven Curtis Chapman

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

— Ken Danby

“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would…

— Jarod Kintz

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be…

— Frank Deford

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a…

— Chinonye J. Chidolue

I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has…

— Karla Souza

It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home…

— Brian Froud

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

— Rudolf Arnheim

I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I…

— David Sedaris

If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on…

— Kerry James Marshall

What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects.…

— Nigel Cooke

The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live…

— Joseph Plaskett

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The…

— J. G. Ballard

“Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I've been creating in some capacity forever. It was always usually painting and drawing, but I've been exploring more video and sculpture…

— Chloe Wise

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

— Yves Klein

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

— Edgar Degas

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

— Erin Morgenstern

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

— Howard Hodgkin

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

— Willem de Kooning

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

— Thomas A. Edison

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

— Howard Hodgkin

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

— Frank O'Hara

“But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,”

— Monique Martin

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

— Serj Tankian

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander