Painting Quotes · Page 54

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

— Zac Efron

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

— Damien Hirst

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

— Eugene Delacroix

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

— Edvard Munch

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to…

— Spalding Gray

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire…

— Gerhard Richter

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

— Yoko Ono

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

— Dylan Lauren

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower.…

— Paul Cezanne

Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the…

— Arnulf Rainer

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both…

— Sylvia Kristel

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting… it is to assist Nature…

— William Wordsworth

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my…

— Arthur Smith

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I…

— O. Henry

“There's so many dimensions to me. I am not a flat surface that can express myself like a painting, but more like…

— K.K. Cook

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying…

— Philip Guston

The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good…

— Odd Nerdrum

We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated.…

— Jill Stein

“You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of…

— Witold Gombrowicz

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing…

— Gerhard Richter

“It had never been a secret that I'd idealized my father, that I would've done anything to please him--to be the apple…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I would say an eyebrow pencil - a brush and pencil, I cannot leave home without that. Definitely concealer, just because of…

— Rachel Lindsay

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or…

— Franka Potente

“-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

— John McLaughlin

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

— Barnett Newman

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— Mason Cooley

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick…

— Marianne Elliott

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

“When you build a house You nail down memories Paint and stain the fabric of time”

— Richard L. Ratliff

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

— Vincente Minnelli

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

— will.i.am

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

— Jackson Pollock

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

— Walter J. Phillips

“But nobody listens to artists any more. Paint cannot stop progress, only color it.”

— Michael Walterich

Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

— Stephen Beal

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

— Sara Genn

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

— John Ruskin