Painting Quotes · Page 62

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

— Eugene Delacroix

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

— Vincent Van Gogh

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

— Oscar Wilde

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

— Rainn Wilson

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

— Jackson Pollock

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind…

— Eugen Herrigel

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic…

— Guido Molinari

“An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions…

— Steve Martin

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to…

— Beth Orton

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether…

— Corita Kent

I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's…

— Pat Steir

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties…

— Claude Debussy

When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the…

— John Berger

“The artist Eleseth," Shallen observed to Pattern, "once did an experiment. She set out only ruby spheres, in their strength, to light…

— Brandon Sanderson

As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She…

— Anonymous

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it.…

— Cy Twombly

“When he worked on this painting, he felt sometimes as if he were flying, as if the world of galleries and parties…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home…

— Martine Franck

The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is…

— Donald Barthelme

I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really…

— Robert Barry

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

— Queen Elizabeth II

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to…

— Arthur Symons

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

— Francis Bacon

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good…

— Hulk Hogan

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

— Diane Wakoski

“Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.”

— Fennel Hudson

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

— Pierre Soulages

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

— Kazimir Malevich

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

“...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.”

— Amy Tan

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

— Philip Guston

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

— Pierre Alechinsky

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

— Aime Cesaire