Painting Quotes · Page 69

“Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time’s arrow moves the other way.”

— Martin Amis

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

— Bryce Dessner

“If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you”

— Shannon Dermott

“Peeta doesn’t need a brush to paint images from the Games. He works just as well in words.”

— Suzanne Collins

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

— Carolina Herrera

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

— Kehinde Wiley

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

— Royal Robbins

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads…

— Paul McCartney

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy…

— Agnes Varda

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness…

— Fernando Botero

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started…

— Cyndi Lauper

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space.…

— Stephan Pastis

I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed…

— Kerry James Marshall

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

— Walter Gropius

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

— Rollo May

The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only…

— Gerhard Richter

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I…

— Lucas Neff

A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged…

— Walter J. Phillips

The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've…

— Burton Silverman

“Now where's this artist?" His eyes darted around the room, landed on Gennie and clung. She thought she saw surprise, quickly veiled,…

— Nora Roberts

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a…

— Wayne White

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see…

— John Green

The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

— Leonora Carrington

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

— Jonathan Winters

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

— Robert Motherwell

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

— Richard Diebenkorn

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

— Anton Corbijn

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

— Thomas Kinkade

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

— Rita Mae Brown

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

— Warren MacKenzie

When I say artist I mean the one who is building things ¦ some with a brush some with a shovel some…

— ZhatsPrincess

“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.”

— Scott McClanahan

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

— Mike Svob

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

— Mary GrandPre

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

— Mac Miller

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

— Andre Malraux