Painting Quotes · Page 61

I was always trying to get in the paint and get the easiest shots I can.

— Ivica Zubac

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

— Gerhard Richter

I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

— Armie Hammer

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Haha.. I got this picture today from my best friend Eva. Thank you very much Eva.. You are a good painter :)

— Abdelghani

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

— Edmond de Goncourt

A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.

— Dan Levy

“Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours”

— Steven Brust

“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would…

— Jarod Kintz

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the…

— Gustave Flaubert

I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has…

— Karla Souza

“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a…

— Chinonye J. Chidolue

It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home…

— Brian Froud

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

— Rudolf Arnheim

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,…

— Paul Gauguin

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make…

— Denzel Washington

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was…

— Rupi Kaur

I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found...…

— Artemisia Gentileschi

“Anyone who has not groomed his life in general towards some definite end cannot possibly arrange his individual actions properly. It is…

— Michel de Montaigne

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The…

— David Hockney

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings…

— Joan Mitchell

A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of…

— Ibn Warraq

Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless…

— Jane Kenyon

“But what cannot be taught, fortunately or unfortunately, is the creative, expressive side of art. Most good teachers of drawing, painting, ect.,…

— Edward Chase

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

— Damien Hirst

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

— Thom Gunn

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

— Jean Cocteau

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes…

— Yann Martel

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

— Julian Schnabel

“Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

— Gertrude Atherton

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

— Danny Fox

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

— Giorgio Armani

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

— Mac Miller

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

— Mary GrandPre

“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.”

— Scott McClanahan

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

— Mike Svob

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

— Warren MacKenzie