Painting Quotes · Page 100

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

— Warren G. Bennis

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

— Anthony Hopkins

People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like.

— Daryl Palumbo

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

— Gwen John

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

— Nelson Shanks

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

— Robert Henri

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

— Nan Goldin

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“But if all my paintings were imitations of the images in my brain, then the images in my brain had always been…

— Kailin Gow

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the…

— David Luiz

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and…

— Liza Campbell

I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a…

— Andy Warhol

I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would…

— Alix Smith

As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal…

— Lance Henriksen

“You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German…

— Honoré de Balzac

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest…

— David McCullough

“Favorite painting...?" "Painting? Odalisque," I said. "Really.His non-nude nude. Interesting." It was,to me. Edward's most famous painting of Diana is Troie ,…

— Melissa Jensen

“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal…

— Stephen Harrod Buhner

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who…

— David Josiah Brewer

Spending money on art has always been frowned upon in this country - even earlier, when my and others' paintings cost almost…

— Georg Baselitz

“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . .…

— Walter Isaacson

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci.…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and…

— Joan Didion

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds…

— Roy Lichtenstein

“Waiting to create sensual art with your fingers as brushstrokes and my body your blank canvas.”

— Christina Strigas

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ted Godwin

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

— Winston Churchill

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

— Kirsty Hume

She's an artist, her wrist is her canvas and her blade is her paint brush

— Anonymous

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

— Salvador Dali

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

— Dianna Agron

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

— John Waite

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

— Jacqueline Roque

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn

“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse”

— Volkmar Essers

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

— Domenico Gnoli

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

— Peter Marino