Painting Quotes · Page 65

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

— Marcel Duchamp

You don't have to get all the way into the paint to still draw attention or get contact.

— Jrue Holiday

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

— Steven Wright

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

— Abbi Jacobson

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

— Jonathan Winters

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

— Henry David Thoreau

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of…

— Philippe Halsman

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that…

— John Berger

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big,…

— Gerhard Richter

“The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am…

— T.A

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay…

— Jerome Robbins

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work…

— Edward G. Robinson

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a…

— Kay WalkingStick

There's a Diebenkorn painting - 'Ocean Park No. 68' - that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me…

— Tory Burch

When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,…

— Donald Lambert

In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well…

— Rokia Traore

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger,…

— Willem de Kooning

Whether Iranians are drinking wine in the evening or painting something "offensive," they choose not to dwell on the fact that they…

— Azadeh Moaveni

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can…

— Michelle Obama

“In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal…

— Oscar Wilde

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded…

— Robert Indiana

One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish.…

— William-Adolphe Bouguereau

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

— Kathe Kollwitz

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

— Winston Churchill

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

— Paul Cezanne

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

— Steven Soderbergh

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

— James Whistler

“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.”

— Oscar Wilde

“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.”

— Oscar Wilde

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

— Dwayne Hickman

My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative.

— Lucy Beaumont

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

— Dore Ashton

“the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.”

— Kathryn Shay

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

— Keith Richards