Painting Quotes · Page 39

Painting is so much more than the materials.

— Brian Johnson

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

— Benjamin Franklin

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

— John Mellencamp

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

— Joan Miro

“Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

— Salvador Dali

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

— Yayoi Kusama

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

— Cleo Moore

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

— Viggo Mortensen

She digging me, checking out my paint job I'm digging her, trying to get a blow job.

— Young Jeezy

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

— Jonathan Davis

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

— Leland Ryken

“I move with him, letting him touch me, kiss me, taste my body like I’m his canvas and he’s painting me with…

— Lauren Blakely

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process…

— Ross Bleckner

Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a…

— Lars Ulrich

“The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not…

— Jarod Kintz

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry…

— Michael Graves

You don't need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and…

— Drew Scott

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within…

— Richard Phillips

School always comes first. Because I'm home schooled I paint about three hours every day on a school day, but more on…

— Autumn de Forest

My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the…

— Edward Burtynsky

During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just…

— Alexa Hampton

To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as…

— Thomas McGuane

The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color…

— Carl De Keyzer

[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not…

— Thomas Struth

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in…

— Jean Dubuffet

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow…

— Paul McCartney

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

— Paul Rand

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

— Paul Cezanne

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

— Mac Miller

Every man is a painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Pacifiersucker

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

— Ad Reinhardt

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

— John Singer Sargent

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

— Rembrandt

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

— Robert Henri