Painting Quotes · Page 67

The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.

— Edvard Munch

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

— Joseph Plaskett

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

— Dore Ashton

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

— Steven Bochco

“A portrait is a picture with something wrong with the mouth”

— John Singer Sargent

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

— Johnny Carson

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

— Caspar David Friedrich

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

— Ellen Key

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that…

— Cecily Brown

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And…

— Suzanne Collins

At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value.…

— Kehinde Wiley

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer,…

— Wale

The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art".…

— Bethany Hamilton

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an…

— Henry Miller

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person,…

— Theophile Gautier

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good…

— Jackson Pollock

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the…

— Aristotle

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I…

— Henri Matisse

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master;…

— Richard P. Feynman

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that…

— Philip Guston

“Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the…

— C. JoyBell C

The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“-She paints some, Stanley said in a vindicatory tone. -Paints! Did you see the abstract she did for the Army Air Force?…

— William Gaddis

“HIERONIMO. Art a painter? canst paint me a tear, or a wound, a groan, or a sigh?”

— Thomas Kyd

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

— Nicolas Poussin

When you feel as if the world is only black and white, be that inspirational paint when no one else will.

— Ayjee Grogan

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be…

— Anonymous

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

— Billy Carter

“I cannot remember a single painting, although I do remember trying hard to be deeply impressed by them at the time.”

— Iain Pears

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

— Henri Rousseau

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the…

— Agnes Varda

“Painting the enemy as being as inhuman as possible is a great way to win a war.”

— Rae Carson

“Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.”

— Kevin James Breaux

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

— Jisoo

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

— Claude Monet

You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

— Walter Annenberg

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

— Vincent Van Gogh