Painting Quotes · Page 69

“The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.”

— Tim Fargo

“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

— Andy Warhol

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

— Bob Ross

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

— Andy Warhol

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

— George Jones

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

— Xander Berkeley

See my style it varies, like drugs in an alley. My leather so soft my paint prettier than Halle.

— Lil Wayne

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about…

— John Gutmann

I won a competition in primary school for my painting of Nottingham's Goose Fair; it was a riot of colour with glitter…

— Alice Levine

“Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you…

— Pablo Picasso

People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go…

— Cindy Sherman

I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting…

— Kehinde Wiley

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try…

— Gus Van Sant

“The great French diarist Jules Renard (1864-1910) had small interest in non-literary art forms. When Ravel approached him wanting to set five…

— Julian Barnes

One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas.. ..To…

— Max Beckmann

The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because…

— Charles Baudelaire

The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's…

— Sean Scully

“I sat back and looked at it. It was ugly, dark, uncontrolled. Like a monster's face. Or maybe what I saw there…

— Jennifer Brown

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets…

— David Milne

what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what…

— Nadine Gordimer

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

— William Allan

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

— George Bernard Shaw

I remember when I was a kid , and I used to go on the computer just to use paint . The…

— Anonymous

I feel like I touch the paint basically every play I'm out there.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

— Stephen Curry

I think I get into the paint and create for others with the best of them.

— De'Aaron Fox

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

— Goldie

The treatment you permit reveals the portrait you have of yourself.

— Mike Murdock

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

— Anonymous

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

— Blaise Pascal

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

— Thomas Eakins

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

— Adrien Brody

I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint.

— Brook Lopez

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

— John Dufresne

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

— Pablo Picasso

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

— Mohsin Hamid