Painting Quotes · Page 16

“Writing is like a charcoal painting, a black and white story”

— Dave McDonald

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

— Mason Cooley

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very…

— Isak Dinesen

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

— John Dyer

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an…

— Henry Miller

“it is myself I paint. My”

— Michel de Montaigne

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

— Luc Tuymans

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the…

— Kehinde Wiley

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint.

— Brook Lopez

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

— Albert Camus

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music…

— Peter Doig

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still,…

— Frank Stella

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the…

— Bridget Riley

“It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the…

— Jarod Kintz

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

— Vincent Van Gogh

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've…

— Jackson Pollock

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game,…

— Jenova Chen

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and…

— David Lynch

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why…

— Oscar Wilde

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What interested me in film was the image-making aspect of it. So, I went to school in cinematography. I was really convinced…

— Babette Mangolte