Painting Quotes · Page 76

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

— Mickie James

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

— Francis Bacon

Take care when someone says I've got your back... they may be painting a target on it.

— Graydon Archer

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

— Paul Cezanne

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

— Joseph Plaskett

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

— Dwayne Hickman

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

— Norah Jones

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And…

— Anthony Quinn

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could…

— Kathryn Bigelow

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am…

— Stanley Spencer

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it…

— Peter Doig

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have…

— Kurt Wagner

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts…

— Leonardo da Vinci

To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Their poses are all different but the face is the same. Painted from memory in scene after scene is the fresh-faced beauty.…

— Amy Plum

There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves…

— Milton Resnick

In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except,…

— John Loengard

I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack,…

— Eddie Van Halen

I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake,…

— Paul O. Zelinsky

As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

— Jonathan Pryce

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine...

— Jennifer Donnelly

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

— Pablo Picasso

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel

“Remember, the masterpiece of your life is perpetually in progress—each date a fresh stroke on your canvas.”

— Léon RocheBlance

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

— Mordicai Gerstein

I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys,…

— Kevin Huerter

Sometimes I may paint myself into a corner, but you should see the exquisite details and colors. . .

— Rick Sutter

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own…

— Sonia Rykiel

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

— Willem de Kooning

“She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.”

— Jonathan Franzen

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

— Chantal Joffe

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

— Steven Wright

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

— Cheng Man-ch'ing

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann