Painting Quotes · Page 58

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

— Andrew McDermott

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

— Richard Avedon

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

— Bill Brandt

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

— Siri Hustvedt

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

— Grandma Moses

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

— Andrew Wyeth

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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

— Shooter Jennings

I really enjoy house painting - especially the trim work. People think I'm crazy, but it's more fun than using the roller…

— James Doohan

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

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he…

— Steve Carell

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

— John Hart

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and…

— Sam Francis

Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in…

— Banksy

Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably…

— Damian Loeb

Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were…

— Clint Smith

Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening,…

— Tom Irwin

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity…

— Wayne Thiebaud

If we went to a museum, I know everybody won't like the same painting. But as an artist, as long as there's…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain…

— John Lurie

The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering…

— Margaret MacMillan

“HIERONIMO. Art a painter? canst paint me a tear, or a wound, a groan, or a sigh?”

— Thomas Kyd

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

— Mark Rothko

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

— Andre Malraux

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

— N. C. Wyeth

I'd have loved to be a painter, but I'm very mercurial, so it wouldn't have worked.

— Taylor Russell

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

— Mary Quant

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

— Daniel Dennett

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

— Janice Tanton

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

— Sylvia Kristel

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

— Edouard Manet

“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.”

— Robert Baldwin Ross

“To be forever cursed to stare at a blank canvas is truly tortures for an artist".”

— Halima Omar

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

— Burt Reynolds