Painting Quotes · Page 71

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

— Brice Marden

Knowledge is like paint; it does no good until it is applied.

— Doe Zantamata

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

— Joni Mitchell

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

— Peter Doig

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

— Frank Stella

“Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.”

— Jarod Kintz

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.

— Vladimir Putin

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

— Salvador Dali

I don't think I'm good at anything, but I'm good at painting. It's one thing I can do better than I do…

— Fearne Cotton

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

— Grayson Perry

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to…

— Jonathan Coe

Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what…

— Pablo Picasso

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and…

— Andy Warhol

I take portraits for people, I like doing that kind of stuff. It's a different way to collaborate and to see other…

— Jerrika Hinton

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

— Georges Braque

“Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My…

— Martha Zamora

“was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red.…

— Lauren Oliver

Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at…

— Gordon Quinn

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is…

— Socrates

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without…

— Eugene Delacroix

“Once an artist painted on a huge canvas - the skies; The sun, the landscapes and everything that was nice. To complete…

— Sushrut A. Badhe

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could…

— Lorenz Hart

In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another…

— Lillian B. Rubin

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

— Eric Maisel

“...But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

— Luc Tuymans

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

— John Burnside

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

— Pierre Bonnard

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and…

— Viggo Mortensen

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

— Emily Dickinson

“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each…

— Melissa Regas

I keep a steady supply of paintbrushes and canvases. I like to paint. I'm not some great artist.

— Wendy Williams

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

— Tony Curtis

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

— Robert Reynolds

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from…

— Frida Kahlo

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

— Claude Monet