Painting Quotes · Page 80

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

— Norman Davies

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

— Bridget Riley

When I'm in the game, in the paint, I try to use my height and help the team.

— Boban Marjanovic

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

“Writing is like a charcoal painting, a black and white story”

— Dave McDonald

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then…

— Minoru Yamasaki

You know how to paint a room real fast? Just put paint rollers on your feet and then somehow figure out how…

— Jack Handey

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon…

— Joshua Reynolds

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years,…

— Pablo Picasso

“What the devil is that?” Jack asked. Frannie eased around to see what Jack was staring at. Greystone’s back bore a painting…

— Lorraine Heath

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,…

— Arne Jacobsen

“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple…

— Henri Matisse

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the…

— J. M. W. Turner

Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a…

— Ronda Rousey

I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that…

— Frank Stella

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to…

— Bertrand Russell

“Color corrected, yes, but I am reminding myself that it is still an image worthy of awe.” Yoshi is looking at the…

— Meg Howrey

“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some…

— James N. Powell

The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed…

— Bridget Riley

My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in…

— Tamara Taylor

I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of”

— Josh Stern

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn

“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse”

— Volkmar Essers

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

— Domenico Gnoli

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

— Peter Marino

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

— Kirsty Hume

She's an artist, her wrist is her canvas and her blade is her paint brush

— Anonymous

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

— Salvador Dali

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

— Dianna Agron

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

— Jacqueline Roque

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

— John Waite

My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

— Charlize Theron

Art is colourblind - the only colour thats meant to be in art is on the canvas.

— Danny John-Jules