Painting Quotes · Page 108

“It's dark times like these that present us the canvas where we paint our own greatness.”

— Richard Paul Evans

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

— John F. Carlson

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

— Stella McCartney

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and imbroidered by imagination

— Anonymous

“Paint the canvas of the profession with vibrancies of passion.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

— Polly Allen Mellen

Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my…

— Rita Ackermann

I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working…

— Billy Williams

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas…

— Edward Hopper

We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is…

— Nish Kumar

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects…

— John Ruskin

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature…

— Helen Frankenthaler

I think of my life as divided between a lot of different periods. I grew up in the country, but as I…

— Reed Krakoff

I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it…

— Saschka Unseld

“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card…

— Donna Tartt

“He simply painted the portrait of some aristocratic Mesalina, and was tactful enough to let Cupid hold the mirror in which she…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating.…

— Nina Schuyler

To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly…

— James Elkins

The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for…

— Edward Weston

I enjoy painting. It's an incredible release of tension, and I feel very excited doing it. I squeeze out some wonderful red…

— Stephen Hough

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

— J. M. W. Turner

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

— Mary Quant

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

— Allen Sapp

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

— Damien Hirst

A thousand painters can paint for a 1,000 years, but can't make a work of art as beautiful as you.

— Anonymous

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

— Henri Matisse

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

I used to paint. I have all the equipment. It's just the doing.

— Janelle James

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

— Kehinde Wiley

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

— Robert Browning

While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood…

— Kehinde Wiley

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

— Peter Greenaway

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper…

— Harlan Coben

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

— Charles Baudelaire