Painting Quotes · Page 102

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

— Rainn Wilson

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

— Oscar Wilde

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

— Jackson Pollock

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

— Queen Elizabeth II

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

— Corita Kent

As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs,…

— Adrian Belew

“We all need a project. Whether we're 12 or 84, we need something to work on. My grandfather had his paintings. They…

— Skylar Cross

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects…

— Diego Rivera

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all…

— Rineke Dijkstra

A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and…

— Patricia Zipprodt

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as…

— Georges Braque

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort…

— Julian Schnabel

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a…

— Ellsworth Kelly

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture…

— Werner Herzog

Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a…

— Lawrence Weiner

No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the…

— Semir Zeki

Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about…

— Ken Done

“Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did…

— Oliver Jeffers

“Cizek came to Vienna [from Leitmeritz, a small town in Bohemia, then Austrian] when he was twenty [in 1885], and entered the…

— Russell L. Ackoff

“What do you hope to acquire when you bid at a prestigious evening auction at Sotheby’s? A bundle of things: a painting…

— Don Thompson

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

— Honore de Balzac

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.

— Steve Lawrence

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

— Robert Genn

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

— Patrick Demarchelier

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

— Wayne Thiebaud

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

— Milton Resnick

“To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

— Bob Proctor

“Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.”

— Christoph Heinrich

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

— Pierre Soulages

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

— Kazimir Malevich

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

— Philip Guston

“...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.”

— Amy Tan

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres