Painting Quotes · Page 61

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

— Kenneth Noland

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

— Pierre Soulages

“The Bible is not a painting to be looked at, but a window to be looked through, and through that window we…

— Bruxy Cavey

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

— Paula Scher

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

My interest in India began with my interest in Indian painting and music and that grew.

— James Ivory

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's…

— Bill Brandt

Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start…

— John Lennox

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a…

— John Berger

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the…

— Gerhard Richter

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand…

— Martin Scorsese

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on…

— Pablo Picasso

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make…

— Philip Guston

“Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has…

— Vincent van Gogh

The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one…

— David Amram

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual…

— Anonymous

It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value…

— Daniel Kehlmann

A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it…

— Dacia Maraini

“We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved…

— Sylvia Harney

“All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which…

— John Connolly

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

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

— Michele Cassou

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

— Philip Guston

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

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

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Julian Schnabel

“My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.”

— L.R.W. Lee

“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”

— Kimberly Novosel

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

— John Travolta

I think I'm the best at protecting the paint and guarding my man.

— Roy Hibbert

If anyone ever asks who I be, tell 'em a painter with a felt pen who drew Ali.

— Jay Electronica

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

— Andre Breton