Painting Quotes · Page 66

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

— Jackson Pollock

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

— Robert Hughes

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

— Dan Fogelberg

“Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.”

— Jarod Kintz

“She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.”

— Jonathan Franzen

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of…

— Blaise Pascal

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives…

— Rajneesh

Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no…

— Dana Gould

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of…

— Lillian Bassman

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as…

— Edgar Degas

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the…

— Leopold Stokowski

Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup.…

— Jimmy Fallon

In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does…

— Werner Herzog

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things…

— Ken Done

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I…

— Matt Schulze

What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking…

— James Elkins

Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the…

— Richard Schmid

For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened…

— Cynthia Daignault

My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize…

— James Ensor

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

— Leonora Carrington

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

“than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would”

— Oscar Wilde

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

— Norah Jones

You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

— David Choe

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

— Kate Bush

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

— Mary Russell Mitford

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

— Gary Hume

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick

“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.”

— Jean-Michel Rene Souche

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

— Robert Motherwell

Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.

— Oliver Cromwell

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

— George Carlin