Painting Quotes · Page 44

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

— Ernst Haas

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

— Joseph Pisani

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

— Max Beckmann

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting…

— Shailene Woodley

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

— Richard Avedon

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

— Ellen Gallagher

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know…

— Emily Carr

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who…

— Georges Braque

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint…

— John Baldessari

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints…

— Jasper Johns

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just…

— Carly Chaikin

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was…

— David LaChapelle

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that…

— Jerry Saltz

I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am…

— Kerry James Marshall

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards,…

— Camille Paglia

“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in…

— Sarah Thornton

“You’ve got to live right, too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right…

— Robert M. Pirsig

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go…

— David Salle

But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful…

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start…

— Scott McCloud

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

— Mike Svob

I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes.

— Charley Boorman

“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.”

— Jean-Michel Rene Souche

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

— Washington Allston

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

— Guido Molinari

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

— Diego Rivera

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

— Rolf Harris

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it.”

— Danny Kaye

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

— Francis Bacon

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

— Marion Bartoli

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.

— Anonymous

“The painter, Edouard Manet, once observed: “There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.”

— Bert Dodson

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

— Sean Scully