Painting Quotes · Page 97

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

— Jason Momoa

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

— Su Shi

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

— Ralph Bakshi

My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative.

— Lucy Beaumont

My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me.

— Lena Dunham

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

— Robert Ryan

I can take on the world with a glue gun and a can of spray paint!

— Stacey Solomon

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real…

— Max Beckmann

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend…

— Banksy

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must…

— Ben Shahn

A fan once gave me an oil painting of myself. I couldn't believe he had taken that much effort and time to…

— Marky Ramone

And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the…

— Joseph Campbell

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's…

— Hilary Farr

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some…

— Will Barnet

I do work hard at trying to find the right expression for something, which might be like finding the right image -…

— David Salle

“Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes…

— Mona Adnan

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;…

— Max Beckmann

By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,…

— Steven Pinker

“There's a reason why I tell this story. To me these Sunday painters represent myo—the strangeness of beauty—an idea that transcendence can…

— Lydia Minatoya

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which…

— Henri Matisse

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way…

— Peter Weiss

“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and…

— Megan Rich

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

— N. C. Wyeth

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

— Romare Bearden

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

— LeRoy Neiman

“Jesus, you get sentimental when you're high on paint fumes.”

— Lisa Kleypas

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

— Yoko Ono

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?

— Henri Matisse

“I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.”

— Marina Leigh Duff

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

— Anonymous

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

— Salvador Dali

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

— Judy Dater

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

— Abbey Lincoln

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

— Joni Mitchell

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

— Eddie Cahill