Painting Quotes · Page 189

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women…

— Miriam Schapiro

Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted…

— Caio Fonseca

I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a song, a…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I…

— David Sedaris

“I struggle again to draw this man's face in a crowd of faces: which dog-eared lines and frayed adjectives do I use?…

— Dorit Rabinyan

I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So…

— Noy Holland

“He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned,…

— Annie Dillard

“Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought…

— Hanya Yanagihara

What really happened was one day in my late five I went out and I found my dad in the garage staining…

— Autumn de Forest

Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then…

— John Dos Passos

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings…

— Susan Vreeland

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is,…

— Cecelia Ahern

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring…

— Anonymous

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I…

— William S. Burroughs

I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the…

— Frederick Buechner

We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a…

— Eric Drooker

I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at…

— Mallory Ortberg

I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,…

— David Salle

I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of…

— Paul Laffoley

“Once in an endless meadow, just able to peer through the tawny haze of the grass tops, the child who was myself…

— Iris Murdoch

“I love painting. I love drawing. I’m never let down, even when the picture isn’t exactly what I want. I can keep…

— Kayla Cagan

I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good…

— Michael C. McMillen

Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of…

— Walter Isaacson

Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as…

— David Kassan

I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20…

— David Salle

[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,…

— Chris Ware

I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or…

— Lily Cole

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism…

— James D'arcy

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy…

— Walter Pater

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle,…

— Nikolai Gogol

Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic…

— Juan Gris

What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death,…

— Vincent van Gogh

No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums…

— Marc Chagall

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.…

— Benjamin Haydon

Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not…

— Gerhard Richter