Painting Quotes · Page 107

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.

— Mark Tobey

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

— Jo Walton

“I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit…

— Anonymous

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

— Paul Gauguin

“A battlefield; the canvas. The paint; blood. The brush; your sword. The painter; you.”

— Cleopatra Franco

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

— Robert Genn

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with…

— Edward Betts

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills…

— Patricia Piccinini

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are…

— Herbert Simon

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of…

— Anonymous

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just…

— Ian Anderson

It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art,…

— Karen Armstrong

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I…

— Andrew Motion

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a…

— John Berger

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go?…

— Paul Weller

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to…

— Joni Mitchell

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was…

— Ben E. King

“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had…

— Brenda Ueland

“Women, the most beautiful things in the world,” answers the model. As if it’s the only thing worth painting, as if everyone…

— Kitsy Clare

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big…

— LeRoy Neiman

The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can…

— Pat Steir

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

— Lucian Freud

“The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.”

— Neville Weston

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

— Alan Bean

I'm like anyone else. I'm sure people who write, paint or whatever. They think whatever they just did is their best.

— Jani Lane

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

— Emily Carr

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

— Edvard Munch

Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines.

— Logic

“It’s not about getting over things, it’s about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast.”

— Brianna Wiest

“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”

— Max L. Phillips

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

— John Mellencamp

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls...

— Meher Baba

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

— Abner Leslie

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

— Sheryl Sandberg