Painting Quotes · Page 54

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

— Loren Eiseley

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

— Horace

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

— David Caruso

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

— Rene Magritte

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

— St. Lucia

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

— Lorenz Hart

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

— John Piper

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered,…

— Oscar Wilde

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have…

— Callum Keith Rennie

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only…

— Seth Godin

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few…

— Robert Genn

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want…

— Miley Cyrus

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her,…

— Samuel Morse

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

— Don Farrell

Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl…

— Sophie Blackall

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain…

— John Lurie

David Shrigley is somewhere between stand-up comedy and cave paintings. He does these brilliant esoteric, simple drawings - you might even say…

— Noah Reid

I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a…

— Jane Seymour

The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never…

— Daniel H. Pink

For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted…

— Kehinde Wiley

I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And…

— Kehinde Wiley

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

— David Hockney

“We felt that we were a portrait on the wall, more invisible the longer it had been in its location”

— TaraShea Nesbit

I cant even find the perfect brush so I can paint whats qoinq thru myi mind

— Drake -Brand New

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

— Gilbert Stuart

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

— Kimon Nicolaides

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of…

— John Newman

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

— Cary Elwes

“I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out…

— Patricia Highsmith

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

— Peter Wright

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

— Peter Max

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

— Zooey Deschanel

I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.

— Alex Ferguson

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

— Clifford Stoll