Painting Quotes · Page 45

When the face in the mirror doesn’t please you, turn it into a canvas.

— Tablo

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

— Chris Gardner

“Painting a black thing white won't make you stronger. Nothing false can ever last longer”

— Munia Khan

“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.”

— Robert Baldwin Ross

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

— Bernard Ingham

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

— Kate Jackson

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of…

— Al Michaels

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest…

— Harold Rosenberg

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he…

— Friedrich Schiller

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the…

— Sylvester Stallone

In 1981, I think, for the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Before that I designed a mirror room for Kasper König's Westkunst show, but…

— Gerhard Richter

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the…

— Lee Krasner

Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be…

— Matthew Collings

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that…

— Lucian Freud

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these…

— Adam Savage

“What I have done is to draw and redraw my portrait in front of the backdrop of Japan. I have exemplified what…

— Donald Richie

There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint…

— Esther Hicks

Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way.…

— Bob Lilly

“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space…

— Abhijit Naskar

“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.”

— Hokusai Katsushika

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

She paints a pretty picture, but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor, and the canvas is her wrist.

— Anonymous

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. —Voltaire”

— Steven D. Price

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

— Thomas Struth

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

— Marcel Dzama

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.

— Rita Ackermann

“She can paint a pretty picture but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas is her…

— Amy Efaw

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

— Ram Dass

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

— Jean-Paul Riopelle

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

— Steven Whitney

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

“A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis