Painting Quotes · Page 60

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

— Henri Matisse

I used to paint. I have all the equipment. It's just the doing.

— Janelle James

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

— Anonymous

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music…

— Akira Kurosawa

Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

— Ron White

I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always…

— Henri Matisse

The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It…

— Kehinde Wiley

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither…

— Pablo Picasso

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art…

— Edmund Burke

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home…

— Bob Ross

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you…

— Forest Whitaker

The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds…

— Peter Cameron

In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a…

— Stanley Kubrick

Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of…

— Carey Mercer

My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the…

— Stephen Beal

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a…

— Claude Monet

“In notes for his treatise on painting, Leonardo recommended to young artists this practice of walking around town, finding people to use…

— Walter Isaacson

“Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightly-colored paints,…

— C. JoyBell C

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

— Cate Blanchett

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

— George Herbert

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

— Mary Morrissey

Painter baby you could be the muse. I'm the reporter baby you could be the news.

— Miguel Jontel

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

— Cleo Moore

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

— Georges Braque

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

— Ad Reinhardt

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

— Matt Smith

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

— Robert Reynolds

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

— Philip Guston

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.”

— N.K. Jemisin