Painting Quotes · Page 47

My life will be a masterpiece to me... For I intend to paint it.

— Cv Pillay

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

— John Currin

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

— Anonymous

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the…

— Thomas Kinkade

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

— Asger Jorn

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

— Damien Hirst

The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

— Semir Zeki

“Hey, I’m an art lover,” protested Ramirez. “I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I’m sayin’?” Beverly’s smile froze.…

— Linda Morris

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

— Titian

I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the…

— Yves Klein

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on…

— Owen Wilson

“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”

— William Gaddis

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be…

— Richard Avedon

Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world…

— Roy Lichtenstein

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

— Julia Child

“Here, in this painting, in these (hopefully) creative meditations, you will see teh same sky and the same sun, the same story…

— N. D. Wilson

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the…

— Charles Baudelaire

I love doing portraits, its just now I want to take it to the next level and start making better and more…

— Kat Von D

The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best…

— Karla Kuskin

“The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of…

— Jeffry R. Halverson

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward…

— Joshua Reynolds

“I studied the way the individual flowers clustered around the single stalk, their sharp points fitting together like pieces of a puzzle.…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

— Don DeLillo

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

— Toni Onley

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

— Arnold Friberg

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

— Harvey Pekar

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

— Syd Barrett

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

— Paul Valéry

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

— Robert Breault

Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

— Alexander Smith

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

— Pablo Picasso

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

— Emma Gonzalez

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

— Ronald Sukenick