Painting Quotes · Page 50

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

— Goldie

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

— Claude Monet

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

— Chantal Sutherland

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

— Max Beckmann

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

— Bob Hope

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

— John Marin

A fan once gave me an oil painting of myself. I couldn't believe he had taken that much effort and time to…

— Marky Ramone

Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all…

— Wynton Marsalis

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous

With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was…

— Aaron Paul

“A photo can speak more than what a thousand words can speak indeed a painting can speak more than what a thousand…

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

— Baz Luhrmann

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into…

— E. J. Hughes

I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring…

— Liza Campbell

When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the…

— John Berger

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music…

— Peter Doig

“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous…

— David Hockney

The only way to get change is not through the courts or — heaven forbid — the politicians, but through a change…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting…

— Brian Froud

The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the…

— Arnold Friberg

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

— Danny Kaye

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

— Washington Allston

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

— Mason Cooley

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

— PJ Harvey

The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one.

— Hemistich

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

— Oliver Jeffers

Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.

— Robert Glasper

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

— Henri Matisse

When I'm in the game, in the paint, I try to use my height and help the team.

— Boban Marjanovic

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

— Danny Kaye

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

— George Bernard Shaw

“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.”

— Leonhard Emmerling

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.

— Vladimir Putin

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

— Beth Macy

It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!

— Paterson Ewen

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

— Shahzia Sikander