Painting Quotes · Page 67

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

— Claude Monet

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

— Anonymous

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

— Roger Verge

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

— Robert Indiana

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

— George Eliot

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

— Vladimir Kramnik

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

— Ted Godwin

“I had to stop selling stick-figure portraits of women at the beach, after too many customers complained I was making them look…

— Jarod Kintz

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like…

— Antony Sher

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way…

— Jackson Pollock

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel…

— T. Allen Lawson

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been…

— David LaChapelle

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to…

— Keith Shackleton

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will…

— Gertrude Stein

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,…

— Michelangelo

The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound…

— Stephen Beal

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is…

— Francis Bacon

I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have…

— Barry McGee

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different…

— Paula Patton

That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings…

— Kehinde Wiley

I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake,…

— Paul O. Zelinsky

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common…

— Matthew McConaughey

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

— Too Short

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

— Francis Bacon

“It's dark times like these that present us the canvas where we paint our own greatness.”

— Richard Paul Evans

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

— George Clooney

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

— Pierre Bonnard

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

— L. S. Lowry

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

— Robert Motherwell

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

— Thomas Eakins

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

— Joe Lycett

“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Every job is a self portrait of a person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

— Anonymous

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.”

— Marc Chagall

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

— H. R. Giger

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

— Cheng Man-ch'ing