Painting Quotes · Page 85

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

— Robert Genn

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

— Patrick Demarchelier

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

— Wayne Thiebaud

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick

“To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

— Bob Proctor

“Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.”

— Christoph Heinrich

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to…

— Martha Stewart

I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to…

— Mary Beard

Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting…

— Michelangelo

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see…

— Kehinde Wiley

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was,…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about…

— Aesop Rock

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than…

— Phil Collins

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and…

— William T. Vollmann

Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from…

— George Harrison

A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into…

— Thomas Kinkade

How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured…

— Antoine Fuqua

The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the…

— Arnold Friberg

The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line…

— Andrew Forge

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem,…

— Joni Mitchell

Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can…

— Cornelius Lanczos

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

— Richard Avedon

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

— Erro

She paints a pretty picture, but this story has a twist, her paint brush is a razor and her canvas is her…

— Levita Charin

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

— Burton Silverman

“I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away”

— Edward Hirsch

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

— Julian Schnabel

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

— William Shakespeare

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

— Mary Russell Mitford

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

— Willem de Kooning

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

— Jeff Koons

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

— Joan Miro

“Painting imparts new wings And my mind soars high; Imagination glitters the alleys of my mind And I fly, fly, fly...”

— Neelam Saxena Chandra