Painting Quotes · Page 74

“I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.”

— Leanna Renee Hieber

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

— Grimes

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

— Hideo Kojima

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

— Edgar Degas

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

— Shunryu Suzuki

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

— Melanie Martinez

I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come…

— Derek Hough

… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

— David Hockney

“Oil paints were wiser to the human condition, understanding our imperfections and giving us enough time to rework ourselves until we made…

— S. Walden

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she…

— Dawn French

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are…

— Antony Beevor

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of…

— Dimple Kapadia

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward,…

— Cynthia Daignault

“As you entered the room stirring air with suppleness of walk, waking up the stillness with jingles of cymbals, making curtains dance…

— Suman Pokhrel

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art…

— Marina Abramovic

“Why then did she do it? She looked at the canvas, lightly scored with running lines. It would be hung in the…

— Virginia Woolf

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the…

— Oscar Wilde

The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look…

— Gerhard Richter

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with…

— John Green

I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way,…

— Shailene Woodley

When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever…

— Douglas Portway

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

— Mary Pratt

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

— Damien Hirst

I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

— Pharrell Williams

Life is beautiful like a painting. It is us who choose what color to use in order to make it memorable and…

— Aga La Tina

I was very girly growing up; I loved pink and doing my makeup and doing my hair and painting my nails.

— Mia Goth

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

— Wale

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

— M. F. Husain

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

— Pablo Picasso

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

— Bob Ross

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

— Zac Efron

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Every great painting includes hundreds of imperfect brushstrokes" Ray White”

— Ray White

I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.

— Roger Rees

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

— Kenneth Clark