Painting Quotes · Page 55

“when you take a photograph of someone, you take a portrait of their soul”

— Winna Efendi

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

— Agnes Martin

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

— Eugene Delacroix

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, 15TH-CENTURY PAINTER AND INVENTOR”

— Nat Greene

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

— Vincent Van Gogh

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

— Mark Tobey

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

— Garry Trudeau

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money,…

— Andy Warhol

Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music…

— Ted Shawn

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite…

— Stephen Beal

For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be…

— Tino Sehgal

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it…

— Anne Rice

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s…

— Pablo Picasso

I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the…

— Anton Yelchin

Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women…

— Miriam Schapiro

“Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word…

— Chris Mars

“Above all, he encourages her to paint, nodding with approval at even her most unusual experiments with color, light, rough brushwork [...].…

— Elizabeth Kostova

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We…

— Alain de Botton

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject…

— Tom Wesselmann

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are…

— Jerry Saltz

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already…

— Robert Breault

I wasn't trained as an actor at all. I had studied painting in America and had no clue about acting when I…

— Deepti Naval

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

— Man Ray

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

— Kenneth Clark

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

— Edouard Manet

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who…

— Paul Caponigro

That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.

— Leon Kossoff

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

— Igor Babailov

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

— Joni Mitchell

Knowledge is like paint; it does no good until it is applied.

— Doe Zantamata

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

— Brice Marden

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

— Danny Fox

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

— Peter Doig

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

— Frank Stella

“Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.”

— Jarod Kintz

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.

— Vladimir Putin