Painting Quotes · Page 46

“Michael used to draw self-portraits with nightmares hidden in his curls.”

— Janet Fitch

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

— Brandon Boyd

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

— Walt Disney

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

— Gisele Freund

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.

— Robert Breault

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

— L. S. Lowry

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

— Francis Bacon

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or…

— Joshua Greenberg

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep…

— Lil B

You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it…

— Pablo Picasso

I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is…

— Carmen Ejogo

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it -…

— Robert Motherwell

“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.”

— Blaise Pascal

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing…

— Max Beckmann

The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from…

— Jessica Stockholder

It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library…

— Kehinde Wiley

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the…

— Paul McCartney

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still,…

— Frank Stella

At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto,…

— Jean Chretien

I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through…

— Anonymous

I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed…

— Kehinde Wiley

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer…

— Gerhard Richter

I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about…

— Cory Arcangel

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...

— Claude Monet

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

— Mason Cooley

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

— Ben Shahn

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

— John Baldessari

“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.”

— Oscar Wilde

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

— Camille Pissarro

“Life's one big great canvas; you should throw all the paint on it you can,”

— Danny Kaye

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

“It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works.”

— Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers.

— Sidharth Malhotra

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

— Sylvia Kristel

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

— Anthony Quinn

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg