Painting Quotes · Page 64

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

— Michael Leunig

In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music.

— Mark Lanegan

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

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

— Danny Fox

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

— Henri Matisse

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

— Freddie Mercury

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

— Robyn Hitchcock

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

— Honore de Balzac

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of…

— Ma Jian

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes…

— Anonymous

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very…

— Billy Boyd

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

— James Elkins

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose…

— Louise Hay

“The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what…

— Siri Hustvedt

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as…

— Joel Meyerowitz

“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

My background is in art. I was a painter and an occasional sculptor, and I really like materials - you know, stuff.…

— Caterina Fake

I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them.…

— Landon Metz

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience…

— David E. Cooper

Lily Tomlin, Judi Dench, Carol Burnett, Linda Emond, Meryl Streep, Janet Mctyre. I saw all these women on stage, and I experienced…

— Miriam Shor

A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged…

— Walter J. Phillips

I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they…

— John Lurie

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

— Robert Motherwell

“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”

— Carol Brearley

I spent a lot of time being creative as a child - painting, drawing and writing poetry.

— Bugzy Malone

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

— Pierre Soulages

“Love is like paint - you can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.”

— Wayne L Misner

“A battlefield; the canvas. The paint; blood. The brush; your sword. The painter; you.”

— Cleopatra Franco

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

— Jackson Pollock

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

— Stephen Curry

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.

— N.D. Wilson

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO