Painting Quotes · Page 73

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of…

— John Newman

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

— Kimon Nicolaides

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

— Cary Elwes

“I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out…

— Patricia Highsmith

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

— Zooey Deschanel

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

— Peter Max

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when…

— Banksy

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an…

— Paul Virilio

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a…

— Carl Andre

Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me.

— Akiane Kramarik

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into…

— Francesca DiMattio

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“How long would a child last in this environment that is depicted in your paintings? It seems the child would need a…

— Annie Owens

I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself.…

— Alec Monopoly

We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience…

— Christian Boltanski

You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and…

— Werner Herzog

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a…

— Roger Fry

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,…

— Joshua Reynolds

Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably…

— Damian Loeb

You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough…

— Anne Rice

This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,…

— Cennino Cennini

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

— Peter Wright

I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.

— Alex Ferguson

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

— Clifford Stoll

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

— Agnes Martin

“when you take a photograph of someone, you take a portrait of their soul”

— Winna Efendi

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, 15TH-CENTURY PAINTER AND INVENTOR”

— Nat Greene

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

— Eugene Delacroix

I put my thoughts through my work - be it painting, or simply writing.

— Deepti Naval

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

— Ray Bradbury

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

— Stuart Pearson Wright

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

— Pablo Picasso

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

— Ralph Allen