Painting Quotes · Page 56

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

— Kenya Barris

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

— Henri Matisse

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

— George Carlin

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

— Joan Miro

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

— Edward Hopper

I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.

— Demis Roussos

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My…

— Taika Waititi

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played…

— Shooter Jennings

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately,…

— Lynne Truss

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a…

— Vijay Kumar

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

— Elizabeth Peyton

“Every thought we think is like a brush stroke on the canvas of our lives. Let’s choose our thoughts, then, as a…

— Sol Luckman

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat…

— Francesco Clemente

“I had this dream that my life was a rolling canvas. Everyday it rolled off the sheet, bleached white, into the beach…

— Charles Martin

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

“God Is The Artist Of Your Landscape Will things always work out in the way you hope and want? Of course not!…

— Cheryl Zelenka

I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting…

— Vincent Van Gogh

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded…

— Robert Indiana

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do…

— Seth Godin

“Morbid anatomy is essential to training and research, but leads many doctors into thinking that life is an agitation in something essentially…

— Alasdair Gray

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

— Henry Ward Beecher

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.

— Henri Matisse

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until…

— Franz Kline

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

— Danny Fox

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

— Arshile Gorky

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

— Robert Genn

“Life is a great big canvas,and you should throw all paint you can on it……”

— Danny Kaye

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

— James Turrell

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

— Bill Watterson

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint…

— Francisco Goya

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

— David Furnish

No-one message me for like an hour(: I'm painting my face :O and yeahh...

— Jazzy