Painting Quotes · Page 53

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

— Tom Robbins

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

— Melissa Brown

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

— PJ Harvey

“I'm painting moments. Unrepeatable, singular moments of light.”

— Christopher Moore

“I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.”

— Leanna Renee Hieber

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

— Grimes

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was…

— Emily Carr

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if…

— Chrissie Hynde

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has…

— Guy Deutscher

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he…

— Samuel Smiles

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other…

— John Armstrong

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of…

— Ernest Hemingway

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

— Wassily Kandinsky

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff…

— Ric Ocasek

To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like…

— Gerhard Richter

“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work.…

— Walter Isaacson

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the…

— Richard MacDonald

“It isn't that it's too soon, you're on the back of my bike, it ain't too soon. You can buy sheets. You…

— Kristen Ashley

“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the…

— Robin Oliveira

To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then…

— Victor Skrebneski

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always…

— Vincent Price

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts…

— Walter Benjamin

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

— Hideo Kojima

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

— Edgar Degas

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

— Shunryu Suzuki

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

— Melanie Martinez

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

— Mary Pratt

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

— Damien Hirst

I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

Life is beautiful like a painting. It is us who choose what color to use in order to make it memorable and…

— Aga La Tina

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

— Pharrell Williams

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

— Wale

I was very girly growing up; I loved pink and doing my makeup and doing my hair and painting my nails.

— Mia Goth

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

— M. F. Husain

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

— Pablo Picasso

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

— Bob Ross