Painting Quotes · Page 86

I want to leave behind paintings and sculptures that can inspire someone.

— Janelle Monae

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

— Oliver Jeffers

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

— Joe Bradley

“From the sun to the moon From the clouds to the stars You are living in a painting under the skies”

— J.WOLF

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

“As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure…

— Oscar Wilde

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must…

— Charles Tomlinson

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the…

— Sergei Eisenstein

Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've…

— Kehinde Wiley

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those…

— Teju Cole

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of…

— Ellie Goulding

Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure…

— Peter Greenaway

She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not…

— Rajneesh

The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal…

— Anais Nin

“all its occupants had left without her. This troubled Frances not in the least. She already seemed to have made a lot…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?)…

— Jasper Johns

My grandfather was a real character. Instead of serving in the Army during the Korean War - he had polio, so he…

— Greta Lee

As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes…

— Teresa Palmer

Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis…

— Octavio Paz

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

— Anonymous

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

— Cate Blanchett

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

— George Herbert

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

— Mary Morrissey

Painter baby you could be the muse. I'm the reporter baby you could be the news.

— Miguel Jontel

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

— Cleo Moore

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

— Ad Reinhardt

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

— Georges Braque

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

— Robert Reynolds