Painting Quotes · Page 52

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

— Cy Twombly

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

— PJ Harvey

The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...

— Phil Ochs

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

— Julian Schnabel

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

— Eugene Delacroix

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

— Chris Martin

The idea of taking a brand that already exists and making a really poor-looking version of it, with acrylic or puffy paint,…

— Hunx

I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at…

— Chloe Zhao

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level.…

— David Hockney

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I…

— Henri Matisse

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my…

— Robert Motherwell

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined…

— Robert Hughes

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I…

— Dan Colen

I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was…

— Gerhard Richter

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture…

— William Baziotes

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they…

— Lady Gaga

“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such…

— Tom Robbins

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things…

— Pablo Picasso

Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward…

— Henry Purcell

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

— Yves Saint Laurent

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

— Arthur Smith

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

— Charles Sheeler

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

— Eva Marie Saint

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the…

— Robert Lyn Nelson

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

— Van Cliburn

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

— Pablo Picasso

There is no perfect painting and there is no perfect solution.

— Elliott Hundley

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

— Bob Ross

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

— Pat Steir

Being a big guy, I've got to shore up the paint a lot more. It's my job.

— Roy Hibbert

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could…

— N. Scott Momaday

“We were poor, but we were happy. We didn’t have much, but we were painting. (Interview in Washington Mag)”

— Alfredo Arreguin