Painting Quotes · Page 94

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

— Abbi Jacobson

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of…

— Robert Regis Dvorak

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

— Hokusai

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

— Ram Dass

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

— Jean-Paul Riopelle

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish…

— Jerry Saltz

“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to…

— Susan Vreeland

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one,…

— Keith Haring

“This is a painting by a French painter who's 35-year old named Francois Arnal, it's called The Drowning Woman…I certainly don't see…

— Jean Seberg

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul…

— Ed Askew

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the…

— Henri Matisse

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may…

— Anonymous

“He stopped long enough to look down at Dex’s gorgeous cock. “I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or…

— Charlie Cochet

I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there…

— Roger Rees

Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read…

— Matt Berry

“Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could…

— Dan Brown

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a…

— Anonymous

If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I…

— Alberto Giacometti

But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it…

— Gerhard Richter

“Chiara points to the ceiling and my eyes follow the lead. There it is. Right. Up. There. The most famous painting I’ve…

— Kristin Rae

“A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

— Steven Whitney

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. —Voltaire”

— Steven D. Price

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

— Marcel Dzama

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

— Thomas Struth

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

“She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her…

— Amy Efaw

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.

— Rita Ackermann

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

— Bernard Ingham

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

— Kate Jackson

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

She paints a pretty picture, but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor, and the canvas is her wrist.

— Anonymous

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.”

— Hokusai Katsushika

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

— Marion Bartoli