Painting Quotes · Page 62

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

— Joe Bradley

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

— Swami Satchidananda

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

— Man Ray

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

— J. M. W. Turner

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

— Robert Reynolds

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

— Jackson Pollock

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

— Paul Cezanne

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the…

— Joe Bradley

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to…

— Sophia Bush

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to…

— Lawrence Weiner

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose…

— Francis Bacon

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white…

— Norbert Bisky

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel…

— Deb Caletti

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the…

— Paul McCartney

The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only…

— Gerhard Richter

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.…

— Pablo Picasso

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I…

— Michael Craig-Martin

As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does…

— Anonymous

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and…

— Chuck Close

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one…

— David Amram

The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.…

— Al Pacino

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

— Jackson Pollock

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

— Eddie Cahill

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

— Edmond de Goncourt

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

— Jasper Johns

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

— David Hockney

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo

That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

— John Piper

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

— William Allan

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

— Philip Guston

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

— Tom Six

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

— Sylvester Stallone

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

— Claude Monet