Painting Quotes · Page 78

With my face paint on, I don't look like a regular black dude.

— Tech N9ne

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

— Gary Hume

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

— Jane Seymour

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

— Tom Wolfe

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and…

— Faith Ringgold

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

— David Lynch

“God designed human fatherhood to be a portrait of himself.”

— John Piper

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

— Michelangelo

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the…

— Dalai Lama

“The moon is the lamp he paints by;   His canvas the window pane; His brush is a frozen snowflake;   Jack Frost the…

— C. C. Long

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were…

— Larry Rivers

The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

— Walter Gropius

It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something…

— Philip Guston

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to…

— Keith Shackleton

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting…

— John Constable

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the…

— Winston Churchill

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea…

— Pablo Picasso

I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they…

— John Lurie

You know, I'm incredibly blessed to be able to have this level of choice as an artist today. In this economy, it's…

— Kehinde Wiley

“You adapt yourself, Paul Klee said, to the contents of the paintbox. Adapting yourself to the contents of the paintbox, he said,…

— Annie Dillard

In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language…

— Edward J. Fraughton

I think I've identified as an artist since I was a baby - literally a baby. I made a book of drawings…

— Chloe Wise

He paints a picture, but the story has a twist, his paint brush is a razor And his canvas is his whirst,…

— Jasie

I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't…

— Patty Jenkins

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

— Frances Stark

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

— Edward Steichen

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

— Christopher Reeve

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

— Pablo Picasso

“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.”

— Katja Millay

“Life is a beautiful canvas, paint it with passion and diligence. Don't scribble on it with regrets.”

— Priyansha Vashi

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

— Billy Childish

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

— Ben Eine

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

— Heinrich Heine

Woman are like aesthetic paintings, each unique in their own way.

— John Miller