Painting Quotes · Page 57

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

That's my job, to be inside the paint. I have to be comfortable. That's my home.

— Jonas Valanciunas

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

— Irving Stone

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington.

— Blaise Pascal

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

— Pierre Bonnard

“You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.”

— Pablo Picasso

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

— Louis Aragon

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the…

— Kehinde Wiley

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,…

— Marcel Proust

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one…

— Susan Sontag

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there…

— Patrick Wilson

Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to…

— Rajkumar Hirani

“Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people…

— Austin Kleon

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular…

— Edouard Vuillard

The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room…

— Alex Katz

When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that…

— Billy Magnussen

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can…

— Michelle Obama

Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find…

— Prem Rawat

From our point of view it's important that Apple not be the developer for the world. We can't take all of our…

— Tim Cook

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

— Mary Cassatt

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

— Bibhu Mohapatra

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

— Rumi

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

— James Elkins

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

— W. Somerset Maugham

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

— Deb Caletti

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

— Margaret Atwood

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting,

— Andrea Illy

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

— Eugene Delacroix

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

— Julian Eltinge

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

— Heart Evangelista

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

— Bernie Glassman

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

— Willa Ford

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix