Painting Quotes · Page 61

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

— Richard Avedon

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

— Erro

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

— Ellsworth Kelly

She paints a pretty picture, but this story has a twist, her paint brush is a razor and her canvas is her…

— Levita Charin

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

— Burton Silverman

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

— Julian Schnabel

“I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away”

— Edward Hirsch

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's…

— Erol Alkan

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad…

— Okakura Kakuzo

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not…

— George W. Bush

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest…

— George Rodrigue

“As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes…

— Daniel J. Rice

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not…

— Albert Oehlen

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a…

— Pablo Picasso

I've always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I'll get…

— Michael C. McMillen

Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is…

— Francesca DiMattio

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters…

— James Joseph Sylvester

No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by…

— Alton Brown

Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by…

— Jim Jarmusch

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out…

— Kazimir Malevich

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

— William Shakespeare

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

— Willem de Kooning

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

— Mary Russell Mitford

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

— Jeff Koons

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

— Joan Miro

I want to leave behind paintings and sculptures that can inspire someone.

— Janelle Monae

“Painting imparts new wings And my mind soars high; Imagination glitters the alleys of my mind And I fly, fly, fly...”

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

— Joe Bradley

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

— Oliver Jeffers

“From the sun to the moon From the clouds to the stars You are living in a painting under the skies”

— J.WOLF

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

— Hans Hofmann