Painting Quotes · Page 68

“Would you paint if you knew you were painting only for Me?”

— Tamera Alexander

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

— Edouard Manet

Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.

— Arfa Karim

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

— Jonathan Winters

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

— Jerry Saltz

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

— Ernst Gombrich

“You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.”

— Carole Maso

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

— Dan Brown

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not,…

— Raul Soldi

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror…

— Megan Hart

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting…

— Anonymous

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and…

— Man Ray

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.'…

— Ellie Kemper

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I…

— Henri Matisse

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in…

— Herb Alpert

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I…

— William S. Burroughs

“Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any way one can,…

— john gardner

“Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what…

— Dan Brown

I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But…

— Gerhard Richter

Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our…

— Gerhard Richter

I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to…

— James A. Baldwin

The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who…

— Jenny Saville

I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million.…

— Philip Taaffe

I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.

— Miles Teller

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

— Georg Baselitz

When someone shows you who they really are, dont try to paint a new picture.

— Anonymous

Creativity is portrait of dream. Live & follow your dream.Creativity will take a shape itself.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too

— Rembrandt

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

— Blaise Pascal

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

— Winston Churchill

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you hear a voice within you say you can not paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be…

— Melchor Lim

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

— Willem de Kooning

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all tje paint you can at it.”

— Danny Kaye

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

— Karel Appel

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

— Trent Reznor

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

— Larry Poons

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

— David Choe

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson