Painting Quotes · Page 67

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

— Mrunal Thakur

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

— Trevor Paglen

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

— Patrick Duffy

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

— Damian Loeb

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

— Robert Henri

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

— David Hume

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

— Stephen Hough

“I do implore my readers, therefore, not to be more clever than their author, and see portraits where, quite honestly, none are…

— Christianna Brand

There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing…

— Gene Black

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to…

— David Luiz

I've had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room.…

— Virat Kohli

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like…

— Ray Comfort

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the…

— Domenico Gnoli

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will…

— Pablo Picasso

Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by…

— Rajneesh

Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what…

— Rob Reiner

Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire…

— Rick Astley

Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn…

— Rosamund Lupton

In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without…

— Hans Arp

In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe…

— Charles Baudelaire

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

— Nathan Oliveira

“She was a work of art. Jared saw the paint and the canvas and a few pleasant shapes. Ace felt the earth…

— Kit Rocha

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

— Nicolas Roeg

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

— Morris Graves

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

— Madonna Ciccone

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

— Joel Sternfeld

The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.

— N.D. Wilson

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

— Edvard Munch

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by…

— Thomas Kinkade

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

— James Whistler

I like painting, I think it's relaxing. I also like designing; I don't really like the manual labor, to be honest.

— Christina Anstead

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

— Robert Breault

“A blanket is a blank canvas for which to paint. And a brick could be chiseled into a sculpture.
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— Jarod Kintz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

— Georg Baselitz