Painting Quotes · Page 52

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.

— SpaceGhostPurrp

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

— Chuck Close

“Read on for an excerpt from the breath-taking conclusion Kissing the Canvas Available Now!”

— Evelyn Glass

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein

Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There…

— R. B. Kitaj

“The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has…

— Jarod Kintz

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with…

— Pablo Picasso

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot…

— Joseph Joubert

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance…

— Curt Sachs

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he…

— Horace Walpole

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“If you use too much paint, you'll not only obscure your savvy completely, but most everything else in life will become dull…

— Ingrid Law

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that…

— Fran Lebowitz

“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable…

— Mark Doty

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one,…

— Oscar Wilde

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about…

— Bruce Cockburn

I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

— Edouard Manet

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

— Tommy Lasorda

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

— The Forgotten

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

— Paul Gauguin

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If something sticks with me for a long time, it goes into a painting.

— Glenn Ligon

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

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

— Danny Kaye

I'm good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can't hang wallpaper or paint.

— Linford Christie

“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.”

— Sanober Khan

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

— Louis L'Amour

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

— Wallace Stevens

“Love is such a craft..you never need brushes to draw except the heart…”

— khode manish v

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

— Les Wexner