Painting Quotes · Page 63

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

— Louise Hay

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

— Francisco Goya

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

— Edouard Manet

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

— Edward Hopper

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

— Gustave Courbet

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

— Chris Zylka

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

— Kazuaki Tanahashi

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master…

— Kehinde Wiley

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything…

— Cy Twombly

“He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at…

— Anaïs Nin

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could…

— John Berger

“In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?...…

— Hiroko Sakai

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is…

— Satish Kumar

“See, if you paint wrong because that’s the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you…

— Neal Shusterman

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples…

— Timothy Morton

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who…

— David Josiah Brewer

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.…

— David Coverdale

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular…

— Edouard Vuillard

[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher…

— Warren MacKenzie

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject…

— Tom Wesselmann

Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right…

— Ron Fournier

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would…

— Diane Frolov

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,

— Donald Judd

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

— Pablo Picasso

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

— Pablo Picasso

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

— Man Ray

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

— Francis Bacon

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

— Sean Scully

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

— Thomas Kinkade

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.”

— Katja Millay

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

My interest in India began with my interest in Indian painting and music and that grew.

— James Ivory

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

— Susan Rothenberg