Painting Quotes · Page 60

That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.

— Leon Kossoff

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

— Peter Greenaway

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

— Georg Baselitz

“The teaching of actual painting could be outsourced to China and taught via SKYPE.”

— John Seed

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

— Man Ray

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

— Mary Cassatt

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

— Robert Genn

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was…

— David Salle

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to…

— Trip Lee

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of…

— Albrecht Durer

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together,…

— Stephen Hillenburg

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real…

— Max Beckmann

“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?”

— Donna Tartt

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There…

— Sherwood Anderson

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find…

— P. J. Harvey

This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,…

— Cennino Cennini

A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like…

— Denis Dutton

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and…

— John French Sloan

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place.…

— Jerry Saltz

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas.…

— David Johansen

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

— Kenneth Clark

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.”

— Teresa Flavin

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

— Louis L'Amour

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

— Yoko Ono

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

— Janet Malcolm

“Certain artists in print or paint flourish, like babies-to-be, in confined spaces.”

— Ian McEwan

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

— Edgar Degas

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

— Louis Aragon

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

— Ernst Gombrich

Cobra haffi pull yuh golden door knob. Paint yuh bedroom wid oil paint whey mi have.

— Mad Cobra

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

— Anthony Hopkins

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

— Wang Jianwei

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

— Leon Battista Alberti