Painting Quotes · Page 58

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

— Mary GrandPre

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

— Mac Miller

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

— Andre Malraux

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

— Charles Tomlinson

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

— Francisco Goya

Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.

— Ben Eine

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

— Jacques-Louis David

“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation…

— Elisa Lorello

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the…

— Dan Harmon

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic:…

— Jane Campion

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of…

— Joe Murray

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,…

— John Dryden

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the…

— Norman McLaren

I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try…

— Alan Bean

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my…

— Irving Stone

“He simply painted the portrait of some aristocratic Mesalina, and was tactful enough to let Cupid hold the mirror in which she…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating.…

— Nina Schuyler

To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly…

— James Elkins

The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for…

— Edward Weston

I enjoy painting. It's an incredible release of tension, and I feel very excited doing it. I squeeze out some wonderful red…

— Stephen Hough

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some…

— Damien Hirst

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of…

— Jeffrey Brown

“There’s something familiar about the curve of her lower lip. The weight cradled by a soft, slender chin. The bow of her…

— A.D. Evans

Shes an artist, a painter actually. See that smile on her face? Its her most famous piece!

— Anonymous

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

— Paul Gauguin

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

— Mac O'Grady

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

— John Lydon

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

— Hedy Lamarr

“She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.”

— Akshay Vasu

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

— Edouard Manet

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

— Jonathan Winters

Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.

— Arfa Karim

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

— Jerry Saltz

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

— Ernst Gombrich

“You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.”

— Carole Maso

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

— Dan Brown

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

— Georg Baselitz