Painting Quotes · Page 58

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

— Martin Scorsese

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

— Too Short

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

— Okakura Kakuzo

Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.

— William McGregor Paxton

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

— Roma Downey

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.

— Benigno Aquino III

My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

Life's a canvas you're an artist, Paint a picture of a garden then go and marvel at the harvest you created from…

— Anonymous

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous…

— Rainn Wilson

The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they…

— Vincent Van Gogh

My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings…

— Sam Palladio

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry,…

— Andrew W.K

Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t…

— Mirka Mora

When my brother and I were small, somebody pointed out that we looked like something out of 'The Dark Crystal.' I think…

— Zoe Ball

The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that…

— Henri Nouwen

Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the…

— John Piper

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I…

— Irving Stone

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture -…

— Elizabeth Peyton

My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall…

— Keith Crown

No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can…

— Philip Guston

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things…

— Ken Done

People see so many things in the paintings. Although I never think of them, it charms me a little bit that people…

— Caio Fonseca

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is,…

— Cecelia Ahern

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

— Laura Owens

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

— Paul Cezanne

“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.”

— Pablo Picasso

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

— Eddie Murphy

“Life is an empty canvas, we have to paint it every moment of life”

— elvis laren

“Love is like paint - you can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.”

— Wayne L Misner

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

— Blaise Pascal

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

— Jay Leno

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

— Julian Schnabel

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

— Benjamin West

“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still”

— Lian Hearn

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

— Kim Weston

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

— Honore de Balzac