Painting Quotes · Page 62

Just be real is all I'm asking, not some painting in my head.

— Anonymous

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

— Kazimir Malevich

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan

I might not be your favourite colour, but you'll surely need me to perfect your paint and make a cute image.

— Blaze Olamiday

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

— Sara Genn

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

— Jessica Stockholder

Did you put your makeup on with a paint brush? or does your face always look like it was gang banged by…

— Carlin Whisler

“What no one tells the young is to be careful of their childhoods. The memories from those days are the most compelling…

— Gregory Maguire

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into…

— E. J. Hughes

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must…

— Philip Guston

“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the…

— Donna Tartt

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as…

— Richard Russo

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

— Domenico Gnoli

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but…

— A. Y. Jackson

Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job…

— Nigel Cooke

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense…

— Vik Muniz

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the…

— Kathryn Stockett

“His velvet brush dips deep and lingers there in the warm inkwell of her endless desire. The ink of passion flows for…

— Brianna Hughes

There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea…

— Joe Rogan

Having a background in doing printmaking and letterpress, I think that I became very interested in images that were flat and graphic.…

— Margaret Kilgallen

I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I've always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art…

— Antoine Fuqua

When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the…

— Christian de Portzamparc

Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours,…

— Gerhard Richter

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

— Alex Katz

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

— Robert Smithson

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

— Oprah Winfrey

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

— Paul Simonon

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

— John Green

“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.”

— Marc Chagall

“Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.”

— William H. Gass

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

— Ang Lee

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

— William Shakespeare

“If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”

— David Lynch

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

— Titian

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I…

— Andy Warhol

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

— Claude Monet

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

— Max Nordau

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti