Painting Quotes · Page 45

“But nobody listens to artists any more. Paint cannot stop progress, only color it.”

— Michael Walterich

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

— James Ellis

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

— Tom Six

The only reason Why people going to watch Titanic 3D is Because of The Painting scene…

— Pacifiersucker

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

— Gustave Courbet

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

— Elvis Mitchell

Painting is a feeling, Never spoil it. Face is a book, try to read it. Love is precious, Be ready to sacrifice…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in…

— William Hazlitt

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through…

— John Dyer

You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or…

— Brice Marden

What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call…

— Arthur Dove

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of…

— John Ruskin

My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just…

— Matt Smith

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is…

— Emily Carr

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my…

— Kat Von D

I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of…

— Marcel Proust

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I…

— Steve Prefontaine

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time…

— Marc Chagall

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters…

— Hayao Miyazaki

“Why won't you hold me?" I ask, drawing back a little. He laughs a little, holds out his hands as if in…

— Ally Condie

The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able…

— Shahrukh Khan

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing…

— Henry Hazlitt

I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for…

— Yayoi Kusama

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

— Roger de Grey

“How easily the paint of civilization peels off with a little bad weather.”

— Christopher Buehlman

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

— Man Ray

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

— Robert Motherwell

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

— Jonathan Winters

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

— Royal Robbins

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

— Leonora Carrington

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

— Carolina Herrera

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

— Kehinde Wiley

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

— Rita Mae Brown

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

— Anton Corbijn

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

— Thomas Kinkade

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

— Richard Diebenkorn

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

— Mike Svob