Painting Quotes · Page 66

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

— Domenico Gnoli

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

— Peter Marino

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

— Kirsty Hume

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

— Salvador Dali

She's an artist, her wrist is her canvas and her blade is her paint brush

— Anonymous

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not…

— Daniel B. Shapiro

The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but…

— Gerhard Richter

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in…

— Ken Robinson

“Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint you On the sky,…

— Richard L. Ratliff

The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of…

— Wendy Mass

I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting,…

— Peter Max

I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I…

— Michael Craig-Martin

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart…

— Kelly Miller

Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a…

— Martin Lindstrom

I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a song, a…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all…

— Gregory Crewdson

“A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight…

— Osho

“The ancient canyon art of Utah belongs in that same international museum without walls which makes African sculpture, Melanesian masks, and the…

— Edward Abbey

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in…

— April Gornik

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by…

— Giorgio Vasari

An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon…

— Joshua Reynolds

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

— Dianna Agron

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

— John Waite

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

— Jacqueline Roque

My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

— Charlize Theron

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and…

— Maria Montessori

Art is colourblind - the only colour thats meant to be in art is on the canvas.

— Danny John-Jules

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

— Howard Hodgkin

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own…

— Mia Wasikowska

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

— Anonymous

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

— Willem de Kooning

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

— Vincent Van Gogh

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

— Norman Rockwell

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

— Seth Godin