Painting Quotes · Page 34

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

— Claude Picasso

Painting is but another word for feeling.

— John Constable

I always start a painting with the sky.

— Alfred Sisley

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

— M. F. Husain

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

— Edvard Munch

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

— Gerhard Richter

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

— Albert Camus

“This would be the stuff of songs and paintings and patterns on skin.”

— Victoria Collins

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

— Jason Momoa

A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.

— Ian Chappell

Love a painting once craved that gets farther and farther away by the day...

— Mariana Fulger

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

— Billy Childish

“If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.”

— Val Uchendu

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

— James Rosenquist

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had…

— Alfred Sisley

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with…

— Carolee Schneemann

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable…

— Marsha Norman

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks…

— Mario Sorrenti

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more…

— Eugene Delacroix

It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather…

— Harold Rosenberg

When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,…

— Pierre Alechinsky

“Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently,…

— Elias Zapple

I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to…

— Gerhard Richter

I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring…

— Liza Campbell

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot…

— Walter J. Phillips

Painting was always something I thought I'd do once I retired. But then, about five or six years ago, a good mate…

— Anh Do

Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

— Frida Kahlo

“Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.”

— Mark Hewer

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

“I might read books and paint pictures but I'm not soft”

— Anonymous

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

— Austin O'Malley