Painting Quotes · Page 91

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

— Harvey Fierstein

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy…

— Francis Bacon

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

— Marcel Duchamp

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

— Naum Gabo

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what…

— Pablo Picasso

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.

— Robert Henri

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

— Mary Cassatt

“Let us paint depth, joy, and happiness onto the canvas of our lives, for it is a vital and gratifying endeavor. (Painting…

— Erik Pevernagie

“I had to stop selling stick-figure portraits of women at the beach, after too many customers complained I was making them look…

— Jarod Kintz

I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful…

— E. J. Hughes

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

— Ivan Albright

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.…

— Samuel Beckett

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

— Rob Long

“Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.”

— Junot Díaz

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible…

— Leonardo da Vinci

He paints a picture, but the story has a twist: his paint brush is a razor. And his canvas is his wrist.…

— Anonymous

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop…

— Gerhard Richter

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and…

— Zhang Xiaogang

I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in…

— Oliver Jeffers

“ Rose shook her head and dipped her brush into the Dusty Pink dollop on her palette, thinking it was so funny…

— Goldy Moldavsky

The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself…

— Philip Guston

Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons.…

— Banksy

I come from a painting background, and although my painting is completely different from my performances, there is something about the fundamentals…

— Tehching Hsieh

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

— Bibhu Mohapatra

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

— Rumi

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

— James Elkins

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington.

— Blaise Pascal

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

— Irving Stone

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

— Pierre Bonnard

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

— Louis Aragon

“You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.”

— Pablo Picasso

When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.

— Rick Ross

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

— E. O. Wilson

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

— Marcel Duchamp

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

— Edvard Munch

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

— Beth Macy

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

— Leopold Stokowski