Painting Quotes · Page 88

“Canvas, then you must define the Bitmap upon which drawing will actually be performed. The”

— Anonymous

“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,”

— Pete Hamill

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

— Anonymous

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

Don't paint me as how you see me in your eyes because you still don't know the whole part of me...

— Leonora R Aquino

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

Woman are like aesthetic paintings, each unique in their own way.

— John Miller

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was…

— David Hockney

You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence…

— Frederick Lenz

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,…

— Pat Conroy

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and…

— Andy Rooney

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting,…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.

— Jon Witcomb

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to…

— Balthus

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting…

— Paul Cezanne

This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters…

— Hunter S. Thompson

For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space…

— Elaine de Kooning

I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too…

— K.J. Bishop

“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush…

— Anonymous

A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A…

— Rajneesh

The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is…

— Swami Vivekananda

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

— Jackson Pollock

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

— Victoria Wood

“Life is a beautiful canvas, paint it with passion and diligence. Don't scribble on it with regrets.”

— Priyansha Vashi

“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.”

— Katja Millay

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

— Heinrich Heine

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

— Ben Eine

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

— Billy Childish

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

— Baltasar Gracian

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

— Michelangelo

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

Don't put too much make up. It's called a face.. Not a painting.

— Zank

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

— Julian Schnabel

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

— Peter Greenaway