Painting Quotes · Page 53

“I think deep down I'm a painter, but my hands just don't know how to move to capture the beauty.”

— Wasabi Wheathins

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

— Robert Indiana

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

— Michelangelo

“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”

— Carol Brearley

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

— Jack Welpott

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

— John Hurt

“I lost track of time when I was in the studio painting. I will get lost in the canvas. It was a…

— Robin Sharma

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it…

— Sarah Jeffery

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the…

— Elizabeth Neel

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really'…

— Bertrand Russell

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big…

— Steven Saylor

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling…

— Joe Bradley

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I…

— Richard Avedon

“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.”

— Danny Gregory

I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and…

— Mickalene Thomas

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the…

— Claes Oldenburg

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If…

— Damien Hirst

Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat…

— Michael Jackson

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work…

— Aaron Scharf

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and…

— Walter Gropius

The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they…

— Heinz Kohut

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

Painting my nails is the easiest way to look as though I've made an effort.

— Jane Fallon

“It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.”

— Will Cuppy

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

— Tanith Lee

“She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her…

— Amy Efaw

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

— Marcel Duchamp

“He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.”

— O. Henry

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

— Henry Miller

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

— Leonor Fini

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

— Jim Henson

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

— Victor Vasarely

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

— Mark Rothko

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

— Grace Hartigan

“Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change”

— Benny Bellamacina

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

— John Ciardi

After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt