Painting Quotes · Page 52

“She felt raw, a painting that wasn't dry yet. One hard nudge and she'd smear all over the place.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

— Theodore Gericault

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in…

— Samuel Johnson

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

— Louise Hay

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

— Edgar Degas

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

— Joseph C Zinker

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

— Norman Spinrad

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into…

— Lori Goldstein

“Every dream, every vision is a masterpiece canvas on the wall of our minds. So as artists we should make an effort…

— Euginia Herlihy

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read…

— Clement Greenberg

Inspiration can come from anywhere, sometimes it's another painting, sometimes it's people, sometimes nature... Whatever enthuses a reaction from me, I paint…

— Bhumika Chawla

I haven't sold one painting. I have either given them as gifts or just kept them. It's like babies you know. It's,…

— Shavo Odadjian

“The Painting is not shit,' said Lucien. 'I know,' said Henri. 'That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal…

— Christopher Moore

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery…

— Eva Zeisel

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and…

— John Dewey

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series.…

— Damien Hirst

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is…

— Jamie Wyeth

“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still…

— Irving Stone

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My…

— Peter S. Beagle

“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art? 'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors…

— Tiffany Reisz

“Don’t you see the inevitability of this moment? I mean we’re talking serious process here, man. The perfect critic stepping forth from…

— Lucius Shepard

The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before…

— Gerhard Richter

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small…

— Barbara Ann Kipfer

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

— Paul Gauguin

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

— Richard Avedon

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

— Francis Bacon

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

— Mickie James

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

— Stuart Pearson Wright

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

— Ray Bradbury

I put my thoughts through my work - be it painting, or simply writing.

— Deepti Naval

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

— Pablo Picasso

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

— Ralph Allen

“Before you paint someone poorly, check the brush — it may be carrying the colors of your own reflection.”

— Charmaine J Forde

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

— Lawrence Weiner

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

— Barnett Newman

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

— Pablo Picasso