Painting Quotes · Page 59

I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.

— Miles Teller

When someone shows you who they really are, dont try to paint a new picture.

— Anonymous

Creativity is portrait of dream. Live & follow your dream.Creativity will take a shape itself.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too

— Rembrandt

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

— Blaise Pascal

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

— Winston Churchill

If you hear a voice within you say you can not paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be…

— Melchor Lim

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave…

— Toni Morrison

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but…

— Joan Didion

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his…

— Peter Schjeldahl

We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents…

— St. Lucia

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music…

— Nas

“Surely a woman, not just a painter, needs a place where she can nurture her individuality, where she can become. Pascal”

— Susan Vreeland

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or…

— Maira Kalman

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

“Peter used to say, "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of…

— Keith Haring

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No…

— James A. Baldwin

I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing…

— George Rodrigue

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many…

— Dan Brown

Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went…

— Pierre Berge

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative…

— Edward Hopper

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

— Willem de Kooning

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

— Karel Appel

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all tje paint you can at it.”

— Danny Kaye

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

— Trent Reznor

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

— Larry Poons

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

— David Choe

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time’s arrow moves the other way.”

— Martin Amis

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

— Bryce Dessner

“Peeta doesn’t need a brush to paint images from the Games. He works just as well in words.”

— Suzanne Collins

“If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you”

— Shannon Dermott

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

— Nigel Barker

“To be forever cursed to stare at a blank canvas is truly tortures for an artist".”

— Halima Omar

“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!”

— Suman Pokhrel

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

— Karel Appel

“It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years.”

— Jostein Gaarder