Painting Quotes · Page 106

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

— Willem de Kooning

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

— Mary Russell Mitford

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

— Jeff Koons

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

— Joan Miro

“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and…

— Donna Tartt

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a…

— Chantal Joffe

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art…

— Georges Braque

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And…

— Michael Crichton

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition…

— Alton Tobey

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is…

— Richard Avedon

I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I…

— Dave McKean

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession…

— Vincent Van Gogh

It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting.…

— James Nares

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way:…

— Mardy Grothe

When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a…

— Julia Margaret Cameron

“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that…

— Degas

Well painting is certainly my main thing. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life, but if I become…

— Autumn de Forest

“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I…

— Abhaidev

I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people…

— Robert Browning

I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless.…

— Riz Ahmed

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

— Joan Miro

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

— Joyce Maynard

Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

— Richelle Mead

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

— Alfred Sisley

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

“Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas. She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.”

— Candace Knoebel

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

— Jackson Pollock

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

— Peter Max

Star Trek' ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.

— John de Lancie

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever…

— Grace Gealey

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

— Claude Monet