Painting Quotes · Page 48

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

— Walter J. Phillips

When I think of Venice Beach, my father's painting is what comes to mind.

— Ron Mael

“To be forever cursed to stare at a blank canvas is truly tortures for an artist".”

— Halima Omar

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

— Karel Appel

“It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!”

— Suman Pokhrel

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

— Nigel Barker

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

— Kit Williams

I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering…

— Elaine de Kooning

“Caleb Omotunde, a versatile artist with a passion for creativity. Alongside his writing career, he is an accomplished painter, capturing the essence…

— Caleb Omotunde

I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs…

— Charli XCX

Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel…

— Robert Genn

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

— Walter J. Phillips

“We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but…

— Osho

She paints a pretty picture but her picture has a twist her paintbrush is her razor and her canvas has a wrist.…

— Jessi

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that…

— Gerhard Richter

I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,…

— Chitra Ganesh

Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything..…

— Paul Cezanne

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the…

— Robert Motherwell

I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical…

— John Lurie

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's…

— Prince

I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and…

— Francis Bacon

Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is…

— Teju Cole

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a…

— Val Kilmer

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

— Robert Henri

“As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his…

— Oscar Wilde

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

— Meher Baba

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

— Amy Sherald

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

— Guido Molinari

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

— William Merritt Chase

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

— Arthur Dove

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

— Siri Hustvedt

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

— Lindsey Buckingham

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

— Gerhard Richter

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

— Anatoly Karpov

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

— Clement Greenberg

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

— Paul Gauguin

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

— J. G. Ballard

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Would you paint if you knew you were painting only for Me?”

— Tamera Alexander