Painting Quotes · Page 75

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

— Lorii Myers

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

— Bob Ross

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

— Seneca the Younger

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

— Julian Schnabel

“A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.”

— Irving Stone

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

— Beatrix Farrand

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

— Igor Babailov

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there.…

— Jenny Agutter

“In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which…

— Adalbert Stifter

“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one…

— Elaine Scarry

Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty…

— Betty Dodson

Painters who do self-portraits are engaging in a form of narcissism. But it doesn't work like that in movies. A truly narcissistic…

— Jiang Wen

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way…

— Squeak Carnwath

Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a…

— Alex Katz

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

— Harrison Birtwistle

If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely…

— Wu Guanzhong

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to…

— Caio Fonseca

“I concentrated on his eyes and his facial expression. Those said a lot about a person. I’d noticed that his eyes changed…

— Marysue G. Hobika

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that…

— Bridget Riley

I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'…

— Adrian Matejka

“She opened the door of the room and went into the corridor, and then she began her wanderings. It was a long…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted…

— Jerome K. Jerome

The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an…

— Pablo Picasso

“There is a bigger picture, just step back from the canvas.”

— Ilona Simone

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

— Robert Motherwell

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

— Howard Hodgkin

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

— Bill Brandt

“She felt raw, a painting that wasn't dry yet. One hard nudge and she'd smear all over the place.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

— Theodore Gericault

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in…

— Samuel Johnson

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

— Louise Hay

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

— Edgar Degas

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

— Norman Spinrad

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

— Joseph C Zinker

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

— Paul Gauguin

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

— Richard Avedon