Painting Quotes · Page 84

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

— Francis Bacon

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good…

— Hulk Hogan

“Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.”

— Fennel Hudson

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

— Diane Wakoski

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

— Kazimir Malevich

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

— Pierre Soulages

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because…

— Helen Mirren

Cooking is just a vehicle to express yourself, like painting and acting... The reason why we're cooking is not because we want…

— Dominique Crenn

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an…

— Robert Genn

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have…

— Balthus

Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter…

— Jack D. Schwager

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

— Michelle Shocked

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we…

— John Guare

I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting…

— Thomas McDonell

“Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one…

— Brett Whiteley

“In order to understand how engineers endeavor to insure against such structural, mechanical, and systems failures, and thereby also to understand how…

— Henry Petroski

“Saturday-morning cartoon sure aren't what they used to be. The animation is lazy. Too clean. He misses being able to detect pencil…

— Kara Lee Corthron

“If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The…

— Volkmar Essers

“Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the…

— Oscar Wilde

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I…

— Robert Rauschenberg

What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and…

— Ian Hornak

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

— Philip Guston

“...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.”

— Amy Tan

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

— Aime Cesaire

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

— Pierre Alechinsky

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

— Paul Cezanne

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

— Roger Housden

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

— Bill Johnson

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

— Max Liebermann

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

— MF Doom

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

— Henri Matisse

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

— Corita Kent

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.

— Steve Lawrence

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

— Honore de Balzac