Painting Quotes · Page 59

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something…

— Scott Hastie

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

— Julian Schnabel

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

— Celine Dion

She can paint a lovely picture, but the story has a twist. Her paintbrush is a razor, her canvas is her wrist.

— Anonymous

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

— Paul Stanley

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

— Gerald Brommer

Life is like a beautiful painting. One where you can create your own masterpiece.

— Jordan Williamson

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

— Kathe Kollwitz

I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow…

— Emma Green Tregaro

In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a…

— Simon de Pury

“This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a…

— Michelle Frost

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had…

— Gauri Khan

I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached…

— Billy Zane

I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in…

— Sean Baker

“stranger riding one of those paints and coming back over the same trail, neither of the men looking as though there’d been…

— Willard Wyman

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

— Paul Strisik

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting…

— Chip Kidd

Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm…

— Ron White

When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just…

— Galarrwuy Yunupingu

Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how…

— Vincent Van Gogh

All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography,…

— Edouard Boubat

Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated…

— Marcel Duchamp

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

— John Gossage

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

— Robert Genn

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

— Kiana Tom

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

— E. J. Hughes

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

— Lila Acheson Wallace

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

— Peter Doig

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

— Louis Leakey

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

— Andrew Lam

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

— Helen Frankenthaler

Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.

— Robert Glasper

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

— David Hockney