Painting Quotes · Page 104

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

— Frank Auerbach

“The best I could manage was an off-center lump.” “A self-portrait, then?”

— Rick Riordan

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

— Julian Schnabel

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

— Charles Baudelaire

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

— Joey Comeau

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

— Man Ray

“I'm painting color squares. One square - one color. That's what I paint.”

— Nigel Tomm

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint…

— Francois Cavanna

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

— Francesco Clemente

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

— Morley Safer

“And it was as if I’d known that only here would those paints come into their own, and help me. That they…

— Jessie Burton

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

— Gerhard Richter

“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the…

— Cassandra Clare

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth,…

— Jim C. Hines

“So you want to know all about me, Who I am What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you…

— Ellen Hopkins

Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because…

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what…

— Wallace Shawn

I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the…

— George Clooney

It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Donnelley was lifting his shirt away from the torn flesh in his side. He was cranked around, trying to assess the damage…

— Robert Liparulo

“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as…

— Francoise Gilot

“Eystein had also resorted to a weird form of trickery: among his decorations of wood or wool, gold or velvet, he would…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only…

— Danny Fox

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

— Pablo Picasso

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

— Dale Earnhardt, Jr

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

— Jasper Johns

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

— Anonymous

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

— Cate Blanchett

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

— George Herbert

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

— Robert Reynolds

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

— Matt Smith