Painting Quotes · Page 83

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

— Man Ray

“I'm painting color squares. One square - one color. That's what I paint.”

— Nigel Tomm

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only…

— Danny Fox

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

— Pablo Picasso

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

— Jasper Johns

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

— Dale Earnhardt, Jr

If you have an issue with someone, call them out. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.

— Ariel Helwani

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart…

— Ralph Allen

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but…

— Louise Bourgeois

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is…

— Satish Kumar

My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband…

— Peter Heller

“Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of…

— Lucian Freud

“All we are doing are self-portraits. As simple that. We accumulate knowledge and wisdom and power, and we get our hearts broken,…

— Cristian Mihai

The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy…

— Ernst Gombrich

What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative…

— John S. Dickerson

Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary…

— Lord Chesterfield

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the…

— Gerhard Richter

The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to…

— Jennifer Coolidge

For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local…

— Wyatt Cenac

If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why…

— Michael Haneke

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting…

— Jacob Bronowski

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

— Frank Auerbach

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

— Julian Schnabel

“The best I could manage was an off-center lump.” “A self-portrait, then?”

— Rick Riordan

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

— Eugene Delacroix

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

— Hans Hofmann

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

— Rainn Wilson

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

— Oscar Wilde

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

— Jackson Pollock

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

— Queen Elizabeth II

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to…

— Arthur Symons