Painting Quotes · Page 90

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

— James Rosenquist

“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”

— Lisa Fantino

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

— Ambrose Bierce

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

— Brian Chippendale

An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures.

— Wassily Kandinsky

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

Don't waste ur time tryna paint a perfect picture...cuz people will always point out error no matter how you try!

— Blaze Olamiday

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make…

— Peter Capaldi

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good…

— India.Arie

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret,

— Andrew Davidson

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and…

— Maurice Blanchot

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a…

— Max Beerbohm

Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time…

— Georg Baselitz

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out…

— William Hazlitt

Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about…

— Alexander Eliot

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are…

— James Joyce

I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want…

— Tom Robbins

I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this…

— Joe Fafard

The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a…

— Georges Braque

“You are beautiful, sweetheart. All I did was draw what I saw." "No," Meghann said, awed by the beauty in the painting.…

— Trisha Baker

Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice…

— Marsden Hartley

“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between…

— Ally Condie

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

— Salvador Dali

“than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would”

— Oscar Wilde

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

— Grandma Moses

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

— Carly Chaikin

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

— Jackson Pollock

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

— Irving Stone

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

— Luis Bunuel

“the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.”

— Kathryn Shay

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

— Grace Hartigan

I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting.

— Marta Gottfried

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for…

— Christopher Willard

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

— Donald Trump

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

That's my job, to be inside the paint. I have to be comfortable. That's my home.

— Jonas Valanciunas

I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room,

— Ralph Fasanella

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

— Jamie Wyeth