Painting Quotes · Page 81

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and…

— Maria Montessori

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

— Howard Hodgkin

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own…

— Mia Wasikowska

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

— Anonymous

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

— Willem de Kooning

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master…

— Kehinde Wiley

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If…

— Randy Pausch

The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because…

— Susan Rothenberg

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how…

— Vincent Van Gogh

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who…

— Philip Guston

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many…

— Igor Babailov

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time…

— Donald Lambert

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they…

— Chuck Close

Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He…

— Wilferd Peterson

It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of…

— Milton Resnick

Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make…

— Philip Taaffe

What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking…

— James Elkins

“Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever…

— Henry James

I wish I could be more serious about painting. I think there may be something going on there and I should pursue…

— Lou Doillon

Answer this question: Why did the painting technique used during the Archaic period (from the Greek word archaios, meaning old) I give…

— Anonymous

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

— Vincent Van Gogh

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like.

— Daryl Palumbo

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

— Anthony Hopkins

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

— Warren G. Bennis

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

— Walter J. Phillips

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

— Umberto Boccioni

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

— Sol LeWitt

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

— Glenn Ligon

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

— John Dyer

I want an exhibition one day, so I am doing portraits of rock stars. I paint from pictures in magazines.

— Fearne Cotton

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do…

— Jenny Holzer

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh