Painting Quotes · Page 64

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

— Nell Blaine

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

— Lucian Freud

“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

— Berkeley Breathed

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”

— John Ruskin

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

— Edmond de Goncourt

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say…

— Christopher Meloni

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you…

— Anh Do

“Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds,…

— Arundhati Roy; God of Small Things

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings.…

— Matt Gonzalez

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I…

— Cindy Sherman

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and…

— Burton Silverman

I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look.…

— Cindy Sherman

I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what…

— Anh Do

“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details…

— Ian McDonald

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It…

— Harold Rosenberg

The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It…

— Isamu Noguchi

Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall…

— Winston Churchill

“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a…

— Charles Negre

I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint…

— Frederick Franck

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

— Rachel Roy

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

— Joey Comeau

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

— Man Ray

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only…

— Danny Fox

“I'm painting color squares. One square - one color. That's what I paint.”

— Nigel Tomm

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

— Pablo Picasso

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

— Dale Earnhardt, Jr

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

— Jasper Johns

If you have an issue with someone, call them out. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.

— Ariel Helwani

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

— Frank Auerbach

“The best I could manage was an off-center lump.” “A self-portrait, then?”

— Rick Riordan

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

— Julian Schnabel

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

— Charles Baudelaire

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

— Minoru Yamasaki