Painting Quotes · Page 59

I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I…

— Michael Craig-Martin

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

— Walter J. Phillips

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things…

— Vincent Van Gogh

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

— Patrick Swift

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

— Billy Rose

“This is the way I think I should always paint you- with a size twenty-four round brush in my hand as you…

— Ella Frank

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

— Winston Churchill

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment…

— Francis Bacon

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it…

— Yoko Ono

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a…

— Brett Dalton

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did…

— R. B. Kitaj

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I…

— Rod Taylor

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

— Frida Kahlo

“Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a…

— Jandy Nelson

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry…

— Edward Kasner

“HIERONIMO. See, who knock there. PEDRO. It is a painter, sir. HIERONIMO. Bid him come in, and paint some comfort. For surely…

— Thomas Kyd

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't…

— Peter Doig

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 see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity…

— Theodore Millon

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of…

— Wayne Thiebaud

The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...

— Phil Ochs

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage,…

— Edgar Degas

Painting is wonderful because its so private. Youre not beholden to a director or a producer. But acting has been really saving…

— James Franco

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was…

— David LaChapelle

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the…

— Richard Phillips

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out…

— Kazimir Malevich

“It quite often makes me feel sad that painting’s like a bad mistress one might have, who’s always spending, spending and it’s…

— Vincent van Gogh

I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always…

— Rob Zombie

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the…

— Richard MacDonald

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional…

— Peter Schjeldahl

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

— Norah Jones

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

— Sergei Eisenstein

Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the…

— Yuri Gagarin

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a…

— Roisin Murphy

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in…

— Stephen Beal