Painting Quotes · Page 8

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

— Anonymous

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

— Philip Guston

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

— Tony Curtis

I love painting and have a need to do it.

— Emma Watson

What I really do is make portraits of the soul.

— Jan Saudek

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

— Pablo Picasso

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

— Elsie de Wolfe

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.”

— L.R.W. Lee

My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.

— Benigno Aquino III

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

— Laura Owens

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

— Roma Downey

Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.

— William McGregor Paxton

If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of…

— Don McLean

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on…

— J. August Richards

It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and…

— Charlie Kaufman

Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until…

— Leland Bell

All German painters have a neurosis with Germany's past: war, the postwar period most of all, East Germany. I addressed all of…

— Georg Baselitz

Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the…

— Twyla Tharp

I feel every painting is a challenging piece of a puzzle for me and others to solve. I feel both humble and…

— Akiane Kramarik

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within…

— Lucian Freud

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

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

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

— Marina Abramovic

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

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

— Suman Pokhrel

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

— Anonymous

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Photography is painting with light

— Miroslav Tichy

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

— Paul Simonon

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

— Paul Cezanne

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

— Henry Fuseli

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

— Heart Evangelista

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

— Michelangelo