Painting Quotes · Page 56

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

— Kazimir Malevich

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan

I might not be your favourite colour, but you'll surely need me to perfect your paint and make a cute image.

— Blaze Olamiday

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

— Sara Genn

Did you put your makeup on with a paint brush? or does your face always look like it was gang banged by…

— Carlin Whisler

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

— Jessica Stockholder

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

— Paul Simonon

Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely…

— Marcel Duchamp

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of…

— James Russell Lowell

What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by…

— Banksy

I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I…

— Peter Falk

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo…

— Umberto Boccioni

“Eminent doctors warned against Munch's Pointillist canvas, Spring Day on Karl Johan, counselling that looking at such pictures brought on spotty conditions…

— Sue Prideaux

“It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her.…

— John Huston

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to…

— Chris Martin

“You paint from your subject, not what you see…I rarely paint anything I don’t know very well. It was surprising to me…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table…

— Greg Iles

Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. You don't really worship spirit, because you are also spirit,…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings…

— Kehinde Wiley

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

— Oprah Winfrey

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

— Robert Smithson

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

— Alex Katz

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

— John Green

“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.”

— Marc Chagall

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

— Winston Churchill

I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting.

— Shavo Odadjian

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a…

— Philip Guston

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

— Michele Cassou

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

— Susan Rothenberg

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

— Ben Okri

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do…

— Robert Henri

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

— Jessalyn Gilsig

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

— Julian Schnabel

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

— Albert Camus