Painting Quotes · Page 77

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

— Pierre Alechinsky

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

— Frank Miller

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

— Pierre Soulages

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

Remember the time we used to get on the computer just for paint?

— Anonymous

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

— Chris Rea

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

— Rabindranath Tagore

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in…

— Helen Frankenthaler

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends…

— Robert Motherwell

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I…

— Agnes Varda

I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my…

— William Hogarth

I am constantly in a need to create irrespective of the medium. When I started out, I did sketch and I continue…

— Shefali Shah

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because…

— Marya Mannes

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience…

— Alice Neel

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I…

— Claes Oldenburg

“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece…

— Oscar Wilde

Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of…

— Walter Isaacson

I think that the sheer fact that music can raise certain questions or put topics on the agenda has in itself already…

— G.W. Sok

This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films,…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“Practice alternating your focus between the big picture and small detail by allowing your eyes to focus broadly, then narrowing in on…

— Anonymous

I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold…

— Tony Tasset

Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily…

— Lori Earley

I paint on and off, not very regularly. But since I was in school, I had an inclination for it.

— Bhumika Chawla

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

— Damien Hirst

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

— Thomas Eakins

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

— Pablo Picasso

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

— Gertrude Stein

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

— James Whistler

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.

— Gene Black

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

— David Hockney

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

— Wayne Thiebaud

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

— Jackson Pollock

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

— Zaytoven

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

— Jackson Pollock

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

— Robert Henri

She painted a beautiful picture with blood as her paint and a blade as her brush.

— Brii Garcia

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

— Mark Rothko