Painting Quotes · Page 87

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

— Matt Smith

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

— Philip Guston

“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“It's dark times like these that present us the canvas where we paint our own greatness.”

— Richard Paul Evans

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

— John F. Carlson

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

— Karl Lagerfeld

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also…

— Faith Ringgold

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great…

— George Frederic Watts

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

— Anonymous

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The…

— Lisa Yuskavage

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to…

— Kehinde Wiley

“HIERONIMO. See, who knock there. PEDRO. It is a painter, sir. HIERONIMO. Bid him come in, and paint some comfort. For surely…

— Thomas Kyd

No hidden talents, but I have a lot of hobbies. Acrylic painting - I got a whole set, and I light candles…

— Christen Press

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to…

— Milan Kundera

You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them…

— William Morris

By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't…

— Warren Beatty

“What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body.…

— Jarod Kintz

Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.…

— Autumn de Forest

“Broken Antler Gallery for three seasons, and I knew buyers sometimes disparaged a work as a ploy to negotiate a lower price.…

— Anonymous

Being a composer is a little like being a painter. Sometimes you hire a painter because you want a beautiful painting for…

— Bear McCreary

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes…

— Joan Miro

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

— Stella McCartney

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and imbroidered by imagination

— Anonymous

“Paint the canvas of the profession with vibrancies of passion.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

— Polly Allen Mellen

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

— J. M. W. Turner

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

— Allen Sapp

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

— Mary Quant

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls...

— Meher Baba

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

— Abner Leslie

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

— Kehinde Wiley

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

— Robert Browning

While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood…

— Kehinde Wiley