Painting Quotes · Page 6

Painting is silent poetry.

— Plutarch

“it is myself I paint. My”

— Michel de Montaigne

I paint my own reality.

— Frida Kahlo

Painting is very interesting.

— Sam Waterston

A man posing for a painting.

— David Hume

I wanted to be a painter.

— Max Cannon

My Paintings are Battles.

— Georg Baselitz

I can paint in jail.

— Jack Kevorkian

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

— Rebecca Solnit

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

— Fred Williams

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

— Agnes Varda

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

— Damian Loeb

I do believe that painting can change the world.

— David Hockney

Every canvas is a journey all its own.

— Helen Frankenthaler

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

— Stanley Horowitz

“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.”

— Oscar Wilde

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

— Danny Kaye

“The paint was glossy, the car was clean, and we had a full tank of gas to us. The future was up…

— Alysha Speer

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

— Patti Smith

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on…

— Edward Hopper

I always love long shirt dresses with hand painting on it. It's just wonderful.

— Jenny Packham

I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

— Agnes Martin

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that…

— Gerhard Richter

I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me…

— Diane Arbus

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous…

— Robert Longo

I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A…

— Eva Hesse

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk…

— Tom Stoppard

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help…

— Anonymous

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is…

— Anish Kapoor

“Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists "make" drawings and paintings while…

— Susan Sontag

So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you…

— Ellen Hopkins

“A writer’s brush is a warrior’s bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware…

— Ron Padgett

As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the…

— Gerhard Richter

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way…

— Tobin Bell

I've been on the edge of everything, like one of those characters at the side of a Brueghel painting with a warty…

— Keith Allen