Painting Quotes · Page 51

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

— Bob Hope

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

— Charles Bukowski

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with…

— Pablo Picasso

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

— Catherine Deneuve

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

— George Grosz

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there.…

— Bobby Berk

“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le…

— Simon winchester

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which…

— Winston Churchill

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

— Benjamin Hoff

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but…

— Claude Monet

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose...

— Claude Monet

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures…

— Rankin

My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive…

— Billy Zane

I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi…

— Jay-Z

“I was a masterpiece; a painting in itself. He was changing me, molding me, and making me into something brand new. I…

— Evelyn Deshane

Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and…

— William Henry Jackson

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really…

— Vincent Van Gogh

No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the…

— David Wojnarowicz

We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it…

— David Droga

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

— Nina Jacobson

I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

— Richard Peck

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

— Frank Bruno

“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.”

— Salvador Dalí

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

— Burton Silverman

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

— Sylvester Stallone

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

— Joe Bradley

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

— Kate Bush

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

— Scott Avett

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

— Alex Katz

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in…

— Denis Diderot

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

— Peter Wright

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

— Claude Monet