Painting Quotes

My Paintings are Battles.

— Georg Baselitz

I wanted to be a painter.

— Max Cannon

A man posing for a painting.

— David Hume

Painting completed my life.

— Frida Kahlo

Painting is a hobby for me.

— Renee O'Connor

Paint the sky before you cry

— Lara Flores

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

I can paint in jail.

— Jack Kevorkian

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

— Albert Camus

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.

— Marcel Duchamp

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

— Mackenzie Foy

Paint faster than you can think.

— Alex Katz

“Savages go hard on the paint.”

— Young Savage

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

— John Olsen

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

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

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

— James Elkins

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Louis Aragon

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

— Blaise Pascal

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives…

— Rajneesh

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as…

— Colm Toibin

“crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest…

— Donna Tartt

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used…

— Sandra Cisneros

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the…

— Anonymous

In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this…

— Jules Olitski

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I…

— Annie Leibovitz

Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into…

— Semir Zeki

“What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the…

— Irving Stone

I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was…

— Albert Oehlen

“You finally show your professional artist friend the self-portrait you painted. At this stage of your development, what you need is a…

— Douglas Stone

“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space…

— Abhijit Naskar

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most…

— Constantin Stanislavski

Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way.…

— Bob Lilly

There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint…

— Esther Hicks