Painting Quotes · Page 99

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

— Salvador Dali

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

— Philip Guston

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

— J. G. Ballard

Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.

— Perfume Genius

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

— Alexander Pope

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

— Eugene Delacroix

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

— John Dewey

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the…

— Leopold Stokowski

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like…

— Antony Sher

People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I…

— Charlotte Bronte

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a…

— David Rockefeller

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his…

— Claude Monet

“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting. –--Manet to…

— Manet

[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his…

— Honore de Balzac

“A man looks down at the red paint on his hands and wonders for a moment if he’s killed his wife and…

— pleasefindthis

“He unzipped the nylon case, and inside was a discolored frame that smelled like smoke. A thin layer of soot covered the…

— Melanie Dobson

“Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them…

— T. Afsin Ilgar

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the…

— Charles Baudelaire

I love doing portraits, its just now I want to take it to the next level and start making better and more…

— Kat Von D

The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best…

— Karla Kuskin

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

— Helen Frankenthaler

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

— Damien Hirst

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

— Rebecca Miller

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

— Edgar Degas

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

— Pat Steir

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

— William S. Burroughs

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

— Pliny the Younger

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

— Anjelica Huston

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

— Robert Indiana

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

— David Hockney

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill

“Paint speckled her skin like a colourful constellation of freckles.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

— Keith Richards

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

— Peter Max