Painting Quotes · Page 54

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

— Amy Sillman

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

— Scott Kahn

“was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his”

— Oscar Wilde

Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter best known for her self portraits, was an icon.

— Angela Scanlon

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A painter knows how to paint, but an artist knows when to stop.

— Jae Hill

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

— Andy Warhol

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

— Freddie Mercury

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at…

— Joaquin Sorolla

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from…

— Kehinde Wiley

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my…

— Emily Dickinson

My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very,…

— Andrea Riseborough

I love it when people come in my house and ask for my paintings off the wall, and I have to tell…

— The-Dream

I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had…

— Claude Monet

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in…

— Chantal Joffe

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the…

— Kehinde Wiley

There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point…

— Hilaire Belloc

I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has…

— Tony Shafrazi

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he…

— Henri Matisse

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter…

— Joni Mitchell

I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere…

— Farah Diba

Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light…

— Jo Baer

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting…

— Jamaica Kincaid

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or…

— Lee Krasner

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

— Peter Paul Rubens

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.

— Richard Wollheim

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

— Pablo Picasso

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

— Steven Soderbergh

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

— Paul Gauguin

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

— George Tooker

“A portrait can change its character depending on where it is placed and what light it receives.”

— Gabriella Bennett

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

— Ron Parker

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

— Astrid Kirchherr

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

— William Blake

“I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.”

— Juan Miro

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

— Ravi Zacharias