Painting Quotes · Page 65

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

— Warren G. Bennis

People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like.

— Daryl Palumbo

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

— Anthony Hopkins

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

— Walter J. Phillips

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

— Umberto Boccioni

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

— Sol LeWitt

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets…

— Ellsworth Kelly

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they…

— Edvard Munch

Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed…

— Henry McNeal Turner

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third…

— Paul Gauguin

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting…

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until…

— David Hockney

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But…

— Jane Seymour

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to…

— Oscar Wilde

“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous…

— David Hockney

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few…

— Jeanette Winterson

I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out…

— Christopher Bollen

“The fisherman-painter has the best of the bargain as far as the weather goes, for the weather that is too bright for…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death,…

— Vincent van Gogh

Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and…

— Barry Hannah

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are…

— Susan Rothenberg

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I want an exhibition one day, so I am doing portraits of rock stars. I paint from pictures in magazines.

— Fearne Cotton

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

— Glenn Ligon

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

— John Dyer

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do…

— Jenny Holzer

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Waiting to create sensual art with your fingers as brushstrokes and my body your blank canvas.”

— Christina Strigas

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

— Ted Godwin

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

— Winston Churchill

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

— Gwen John

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

— Robert Henri

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

— Nelson Shanks

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

— Nan Goldin

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn

“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse”

— Volkmar Essers