Painting Quotes · Page 73

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

— Vincente Minnelli

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

— Jackson Pollock

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

— Walter J. Phillips

Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

— Stephen Beal

“But nobody listens to artists any more. Paint cannot stop progress, only color it.”

— Michael Walterich

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

— Sara Genn

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

— John Ruskin

“The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not…

— Jarod Kintz

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of…

— Mike Svob

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I worked in my parents' decorating store from six. My mum would get me in every Saturday polishing the paint and straightening…

— Sara Davies

Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before.…

— Jim Rowe

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

— Paul Cezanne

“But the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to…

— Celeste Ng

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've…

— Helen Mirren

What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?…

— Edward Frenkel

“I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and…

— Alan Bradley

When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just…

— Jade Puget

Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental…

— Robert Longo

One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I…

— Michelle Stuart

You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is…

— Chris Gardner

And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the…

— Andrea Gibson

The only reason Why people going to watch Titanic 3D is Because of The Painting scene…

— Pacifiersucker

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

— Tom Six

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

— James Ellis

Painting is a feeling, Never spoil it. Face is a book, try to read it. Love is precious, Be ready to sacrifice…

— Ritu Ghatourey

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

— Elvis Mitchell

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

— Gustave Courbet

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

“How easily the paint of civilization peels off with a little bad weather.”

— Christopher Buehlman

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

— Man Ray

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

— Roger de Grey

“We were poor, but we were happy. We didn’t have much, but we were painting. (Interview in Washington Mag)”

— Alfredo Arreguin

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

— Melissa Brown

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

— Tom Robbins

“I'm painting moments. Unrepeatable, singular moments of light.”

— Christopher Moore

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

— PJ Harvey