Painting Quotes · Page 7

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

Painting is a hobby for me.

— Renee O'Connor

Paint the sky before you cry

— Lara Flores

Painting completed my life.

— Frida Kahlo

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

— Kehinde Wiley

Life is a blank canvas, and you're the painter.

— Blake Toth

In the center was a tiny handprint in red paint.

— J.R. Ward

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

— Steve Coogan

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

— Salvador Dali

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

— Mason Cooley

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

— Quincy Jones

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

— Larry Rivers

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose…

— Jules Olitski

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.

— Neo Rauch

“I have seen the paintings from the air brushed by the hand of God.”

— Lonestar

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.

— Leigh Bardugo

At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in…

— Ari Graynor

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus…

— Rob Bell

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just…

— LeRoy Neiman

At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a…

— Pierre Soulages

I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they…

— David Starkey

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do…

— Seth Godin

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but…

— John Dyer

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet…

— Lewis H. Lapham

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to…

— John Van Hamersveld

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of…

— C. S. Lewis

In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the…

— Jose Clemente Orozco

“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form…

— Mark Rothko

How would you paint me? If you were a artist how would you paint me? With deep solid strokes or your brush…

— Christy Ann Martine

“He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each…

— Belinda Carlisle

You should treat your body like a canvas.

— Theophilus London

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

— M. F. Husain

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

— T. D. Jakes

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson