Painting Quotes · Page 71

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

— Don DeLillo

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

— Semir Zeki

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

— Arnold Friberg

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

— Toni Onley

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

— Harvey Pekar

It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done -…

— Margaux Williamson

“Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase…

— Irving Stone

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been…

— Sophie Blackall

I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects,…

— M. C. Escher

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger…

— Allegra Versace

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful…

— Krist Novoselic

“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in…

— Sarah Thornton

“You’ve got to live right, too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right…

— Robert M. Pirsig

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go…

— David Salle

But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful…

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our…

— Lewis Thomas

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the…

— Jackson Pollock

Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

— Paul Valéry

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

— Robert Breault

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

— Syd Barrett

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

— Alexander Smith

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

— Pablo Picasso

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

— Emma Gonzalez

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I took out my brush and got to brushing the waves on the back of my head.”

— Kiese Laymon

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

— Helen Van Wyk

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in…

— Samuel Johnson

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

— Pharrell Williams

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

— Hokusai

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

— Robert Genn