Painting Quotes · Page 57

Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

— Robert Breault

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

— Paul Valéry

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

— Syd Barrett

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

— Pablo Picasso

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

— Emma Gonzalez

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

— Alexander Smith

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

— Albert Einstein

Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most…

— David Cobley

A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The…

— Damian Pettigrew

She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels…

— Rainbow Rowell

You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in…

— Jose Parla

I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory,…

— Siegfried Woldhek

He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's…

— Kehinde Wiley

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the…

— Damien Hirst

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the…

— Stanley Cavell

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do…

— Joe Bradley

The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my…

— Nigel Cooke

The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between…

— Robert Barry

I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always…

— Rob Zombie

Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card…

— Donna Tartt

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

— Kehinde Wiley

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

— Carolina Herrera

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

— Jonathan Winters

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

— Royal Robbins

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

— Leonora Carrington

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

— Robert Motherwell

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

— Richard Diebenkorn

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

— Thomas Kinkade

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

— Anton Corbijn

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

— Rita Mae Brown

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

— Warren MacKenzie

When I say artist I mean the one who is building things ¦ some with a brush some with a shovel some…

— ZhatsPrincess

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

— Mike Svob

“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.”

— Scott McClanahan