Painting Quotes · Page 82

“Waiting to create sensual art with your fingers as brushstrokes and my body your blank canvas.”

— Christina Strigas

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

— Ted Godwin

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

— Winston Churchill

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

— Gwen John

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

— Nelson Shanks

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

— Robert Henri

“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those…

— Jarod Kintz

In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get…

— Marcel Duchamp

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would…

— Lindsey Buckingham

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

— Patti Smith

THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features…

— Demetri Martin

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to…

— Robert Motherwell

Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the…

— Peter Frampton

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as…

— Bill Jay

When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and…

— George Clooney

The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of…

— Hiroshi Hamaya

If you were a painter and a rock and roll musi­cian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today…

— Debbie Harry

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I…

— Toni Morrison

“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best…

— Andy Warhol

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking…

— Larry Poons

“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by…

— Steve Martin

Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important…

— Paul Strand

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

— Nan Goldin

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

— Mark Tobey

I'd have loved to be a painter, but I'm very mercurial, so it wouldn't have worked.

— Taylor Russell

Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.

— Wu Guanzhong

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

— Vladimir Kramnik

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

— Saint Augustine

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

— Lucian Freud

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

— Nell Blaine

“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

— Berkeley Breathed

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

— Edmond de Goncourt

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”

— John Ruskin

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

— Rachel Roy

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

— Joey Comeau