Painting Quotes · Page 75

“I wrote one line about every painting I saw and then did the same in the street: what sight isn't a painting.”

— Zach Savich

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

— Janice Tanton

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

— Caio Fonseca

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

— Edward Hopper

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

— Max Cannon

I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

— Julian Schnabel

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and…

— Lucian Freud

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

— Anonymous

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a…

— Cassandra Clare

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the…

— Joseph Plaskett

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than…

— Donald Judd

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters…

— Albrecht Durer

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a…

— Jandy Nelson

I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.

— Michael Craig-Martin

He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like…

— Rick Riordan

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that…

— Guity Novin

“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested…

— Anonymous

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't mean to give performance art a bad name or anything; I think there are people that are legit. I think…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've…

— Syd Barrett

I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very…

— Lee Krasner

I think the films and the paintings erase each other. The paintings are extremely slow and constantly going on in the studio…

— Sarah Morris

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

— Alice Neel

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“What it is about painting, how it can hit people exactly like music, and hit people so differently.”

— Peter Heller

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

— Wassily Kandinsky

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

— Claude Monet

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

— Timothy Simons

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

— Will Ferrell

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

— Mao Zedong

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

— Caspar David Friedrich

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

— Gerhard Richter

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and…

— Dennis Hopper

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

— Cy Twombly

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

— PJ Harvey