Painting Quotes · Page 64

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

— Howard Jacobson

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

— David Hockney

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

— Mark Stevens

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Every artist, whether he is an artist of music, word or paint, has a signature that sets him apart.”

— Jennifer Laurens

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

— Francoise Cachin

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to…

— Robert Rauschenberg

A Painter draws a painting Door of Heart witout handle.!! Man: Why there is no handle? Painter: Its bcoz Door of Heart…

— ZhatsPrincess

I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the…

— Jackson Pollock

“My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind…

— Yann Martell

An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would…

— Glenn Cunningham

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses…

— Francis Bacon

“The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am…

— T.A

When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion…

— Cynthia Rowley

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested…

— Dan Aykroyd

Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could…

— Virginia Dwan

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I…

— William Morris Hunt

I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double…

— Mark Kostabi

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have…

— Landon Metz

The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of…

— Walter Isaacson

I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop…

— Roger Rees

“English tourists returned home [from the Italian Campagna] eager to make their own estates resemble Arcadian art. This fertile connection between horticultural…

— Karen R. Jones & John Wills

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

— Marion Bartoli

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

— Francis Bacon

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.

— Anonymous

“The painter, Edouard Manet, once observed: “There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.”

— Bert Dodson

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

— Sean Scully

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

— Chris Gardner

When the face in the mirror doesn’t please you, turn it into a canvas.

— Tablo

“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.”

— Robert Baldwin Ross

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

“Painting a black thing white won't make you stronger. Nothing false can ever last longer”

— Munia Khan

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

— Bernard Ingham

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

— Kate Jackson

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

She paints a pretty picture, but this story has a twist. The paintbrush is a razor, and the canvas is her wrist.

— Anonymous