Painting Quotes · Page 56

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

— Greil Marcus

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

— Edgar Degas

“True artists know how to cut their subjects open and bleed them onto the canvas.”

— Chelsea Sedoti

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

— Ethan Hawke

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

— John Currin

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you…

— Clementine Hunter

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the…

— Anonymous

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't…

— Brandon Sanderson

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in…

— Gordon Willis

I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,…

— David McCullough

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the…

— Joe Bradley

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the…

— Georg Baselitz

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do…

— Otto Dix

Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of…

— Rajneesh

“The large bedroom was crammed to overflowing with family relics, and examples of the various arts in which Lady Emily had brilliantly…

— Angela Thirkell

A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the…

— Titus Kaphar

“There's a hurried intensity in the strokes--you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush.…

— Nicole Krauss

Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only…

— Freeman Dyson

“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

— Paul Gauguin

My life will be a masterpiece to me... For I intend to paint it.

— Cv Pillay

“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to…

— Galib Mammadov

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

— Fernand Leger

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

— Damien Hirst

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the…

— Thomas Kinkade

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

— Asger Jorn

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

— Anonymous

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

— Don DeLillo

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

— Semir Zeki

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

— Toni Onley

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

— Arnold Friberg

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

— Harvey Pekar