Painting Quotes · Page 46

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means…

— Piet Mondrian

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

— Salman Rushdie

No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can…

— Philip Guston

“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and…

— Michael Buckley

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

— Daniel Dennett

“This life is your canvas; what will you make it?”

— Jayce O'Neal

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic…

— Guido Molinari

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish…

— Jerry Saltz

“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.”

— Django Wexler

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you…

— Kehinde Wiley

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

— Mark Tobey

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

— George Eliot

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

— David Hockney

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

— Salvador Dali

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,…

— Robert Hughes

“I just bought a can of brown paint. It’s more expensive than coffee, but I really hit the wall after I chug…

— Jarod Kintz

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from…

— Warren MacKenzie

My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian motivations of Batman as an…

— Adam West

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after…

— George Tooker

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and…

— Mike Royer

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

“All great art is praise.”

— John Ruskin

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

— Nicolas Roeg

There's a new paint on the market. It's called Blonde. It's not very bright, but it spreads easy!

— Nikhil Saluja

Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier…

— Jim Rohn

“yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had…

— Hiroko Sakai

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to…

— Berenice Abbott

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets…

— David Milne

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting…

— Richard Artschwager

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders,…

— Alan Lee

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

— Domenico Gnoli

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

— Grayson Perry

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they…

— John le Carre

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight…

— Thomas Kinkade

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get…

— Annie Leibovitz