Painting Quotes · Page 103

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

— Pierre Alechinsky

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

— Aime Cesaire

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

— Paul Cezanne

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

— Roger Housden

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye.

— MF Doom

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

— Henri Matisse

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

— Bill Johnson

“An ocean of ink in a single drop, Trembling at the tip of my brush. Poised above stark white paper, A universe…

— Laozi

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in…

— Stephen Beal

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into…

— Henri Matisse

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the…

— Wayne Thiebaud

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll…

— Claude Monet

Dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.

— Anonymous

The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make…

— Nita Engle

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would…

— Diane Frolov

I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in…

— Cornelia Parker

“I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses…

— Azar Nafisi

I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times…

— Claude Monet

There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would…

— Kehinde Wiley

You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's…

— Michael Snow

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in…

— Edie Sedgwick

“However blissful it is being a soul without a body in the realm of the dead, so too is being a body…

— orhan Pamuk

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

— Max Liebermann

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

— Berkeley Breathed

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”

— John Ruskin

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

— Edmond de Goncourt

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

— Rachel Roy

I'd have loved to be a painter, but I'm very mercurial, so it wouldn't have worked.

— Taylor Russell

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

— Mark Tobey

Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.

— Wu Guanzhong

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

— Vladimir Kramnik

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

— Saint Augustine

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

— Nell Blaine

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

— Lucian Freud

“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

If you have an issue with someone, call them out. Don't paint everyone with the same brush.

— Ariel Helwani