Painting Quotes · Page 47

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

— Claude Monet

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

— Howard Jacobson

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

— Edward Weston

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

— Mark Stevens

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

— David Hockney

As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I…

— Annie Leibovitz

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this…

— Jules Olitski

I'm a great looker at pictures and paintings, and so forth. That's what I look for - a kind of formal beauty.…

— James Ivory

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember…

— James Rosenquist

Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it…

— Rebecca Horn

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because…

— Dan Fox

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque…

— James Wolcott

“Echo continued to tap her finger to her chin and created more dots on her face while she stared at the canvas.…

— Katie McGarry

Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount…

— Jerry Saltz

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,…

— Calvin Coolidge

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I…

— Neil Peart

When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you…

— Pat Steir

I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,…

— Lebbeus Woods

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with…

— J. G. Ballard

What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have…

— Milton Resnick

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Every artist, whether he is an artist of music, word or paint, has a signature that sets him apart.”

— Jennifer Laurens

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

— Francoise Cachin

“Jesus, you get sentimental when you're high on paint fumes.”

— Lisa Kleypas

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

— Yoko Ono

Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?

— Henri Matisse

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

— Eddie Cahill

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

— Joni Mitchell

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

— Abbey Lincoln

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

— Judy Dater

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

— Salvador Dali

“I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.”

— Marina Leigh Duff