Painting Quotes · Page 66

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

— Zygmunt Bauman

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

— Richard Ellmann

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

— John Dyer

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

— Ernst Haas

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

— Joseph Pisani

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump…

— Tehching Hsieh

As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or…

— James Franco

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me,…

— Jim Grimsley

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and…

— Martina McBride

I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is…

— Gerhard Richter

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a…

— Emma Tennant

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings…

— Agnes Martin

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked…

— Matt Berry

The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Continuo a vender alguns quadros através da galeria de Nice, é certo, mas tenho sempre dificuldade em desfazer-me das telas e sobretudo…

— Rui Carruço

“I feel like I'm in a film about a struggling artist who keeps getting up at all hours of the night to…

— David Thewlis

About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of…

— Sonia Delaunay

“As you wish. But I felt several personal items here while I was a guest at the house party, so if you…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that…

— Lee Hall

Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had…

— Marcel Duchamp

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

— Max Beckmann

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting…

— Shailene Woodley

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

— Richard Avedon

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

— Mike Svob

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

— Washington Allston

I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes.

— Charley Boorman

“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.”

— Jean-Michel Rene Souche

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

— Guido Molinari

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

— Rolf Harris

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

— Diego Rivera

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it.”

— Danny Kaye

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

— Amy Sillman

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

— David Hockney