Painting Quotes · Page 39

“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.”

— Katja Millay

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

— Johnny Carson

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

— Paul Auster

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings,…

— Lee Krasner

I really prize and love great painting.

— John Lithgow

[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be…

— Liza Campbell

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting…

— Paul Cezanne

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings…

— Joan Mitchell

“Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists "make" drawings and paintings while…

— Susan Sontag

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past…

— Dylan McDermott

We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents…

— St. Lucia

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is…

— Donald Miller

I will preach with my brush.

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be…

— Kehinde Wiley

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well…

— Mark Rothko

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and…

— Marjane Satrapi

My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite…

— Mark Ryden

Just be real is all I'm asking, not some painting in my head.

— Anonymous

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes…

— Vincent Van Gogh

You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then…

— Guido Molinari

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different…

— Paula Patton

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

— Anonymous

“Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words…

— Julian Barnes