Painting Quotes · Page 287

Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which…

— Rembrandt Peale

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

— Steven Wright

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the…

— Paul McCartney

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

— Kehinde Wiley

As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't…

— Frank Stella

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

— Tony Curtis

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even…

— Miranda July

In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered…

— Michelangelo

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My…

— Peter S. Beagle

The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an…

— Pablo Picasso

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

— Michelangelo

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

— D. H. Lawrence

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will…

— Marcel Duchamp

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers.…

— T. Allen Lawson

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,…

— Frank Stella

Stare in the mirror but its clear that you cant face what's wrong. No need to fix what God already put his…

— J Cole

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one…

— Aeschylus

“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing…

— Deborah Blum

“All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a…

— Peter Kreeft

“Here you will find marvelous moustaches, which neither pen nor brush could depict. To which the best part of a lifetime has…

— Andrei Biely

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a…

— Stephen Shore

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look…

— Susan Sontag

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

— Pablo Picasso

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

— Frank Stella