Painting Quotes · Page 51

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

— Edward Hopper

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

— Javier Bardem

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

— Nigel Cooke

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

— Alice Lowe

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

— Robert M. Pirsig

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which…

— Walter Darby Bannard

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of…

— Walter J. Phillips

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting…

— Edgar Degas

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a…

— Susan Sontag

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets…

— Daniel Tosh

“...a portrait of a muscular grey-haired man with a grim, almost demented gaze and the sort of moustache that could beat you…

— Ned Beauman

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete…

— Yves Tanguy

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but…

— Ben Shahn

I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the…

— Robert Mangold

I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the…

— Emil Cioran

We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like…

— Gavin Friday

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If…

— Pablo Picasso

There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not…

— Margaret Atwood

You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it…

— Kerry James Marshall

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing…

— Billy Childish

I was always the misfit jock who was with people painting on walls.

— Chris Zylka

“You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.”

— Evelyn Waugh

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

— Lorii Myers

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

— Seneca the Younger

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

— Bob Ross

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

— Julian Schnabel

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

— Igor Babailov

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

— Beatrix Farrand

“A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.”

— Irving Stone

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

“There is a bigger picture, just step back from the canvas.”

— Ilona Simone

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

— Robert Motherwell

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

— Bill Brandt

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

— Howard Hodgkin

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

— Georgia O'Keeffe