Painting Quotes · Page 60

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

— Horace Pippin

“Rework on yourself. Even the finest masterpiece are not painted with the very first stroke of brush.”

— Sk Muskan Tabasum

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

— Damien Hirst

“Well, then, let’s not just trust the likelihood based on painting.”

— Socrates

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

— William Baziotes

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots…

— Robert Genn

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid…

— Peter Greenaway

“Tommy showed me around, starting with the photos on the walls, many of which were of himself, including a few grand, framed…

— Greg Sestero

I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking…

— Mickalene Thomas

I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited…

— Neil Farber

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable…

— Gerhard Richter

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious,…

— Jackson Pollock

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that…

— Robert Reynolds

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect…

— Steven Brust

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks…

— Anne Lamott

I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to…

— Fay Faron

“The first contact of brush on canvas is a heady thing. I think it's the promise of something wonderful, beautiful. You can…

— S. Walden

It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary…

— Michelangelo

It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that…

— Henri Matisse

A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in…

— Lucian Freud

I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it…

— Donald Miller

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

— Michael Leunig

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

— Lee Krasner

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

— Sylvester Stallone

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

— Edwin Landseer

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

— David Hockney

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

— Anonymous

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

She paints a loving picture, but there's a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas her wrist.

— Ify Amaechi

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

— Klaus Kinski

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

— Pablo Picasso

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

— Jack Levine

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

— John Lithgow