Painting Quotes · Page 77

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

— Javier Bardem

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

— Edward Hopper

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

— Nigel Cooke

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

— Alice Lowe

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

“The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Paint the canvas of your dreams with the blood of your sweat. You are the Picasso of your own life.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a…

— John Dryden

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into…

— Manila Luzon

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for…

— Chris Mars

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by…

— Henri Matisse

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether…

— Ellar Coltrane

She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of…

— Henry James

In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we…

— Guillermo del Toro

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even…

— Kazimir Malevich

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and…

— Asger Jorn

So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in…

— Kehinde Wiley

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de…

— Igor Stravinsky

David Price comes and finds me out in the lobby and says, 'Dude, I really enjoy watching you pitch.' I'm just like,…

— Gerrit Cole

Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture…

— John French Sloan

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

— Dave Ramsey

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.

— Elizabeth Murray

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and…

— Dolly Parton

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

— Joni Mitchell

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

— Frank Stella

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'.

— Albert Wolff

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

— Aisling Bea

“I can draw like it’s nobody’s business. I use my door as a canvas, so don’t knock, because it’s nobody’s business.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm an artist, I'm very artistic and it's great to have that. I have a lot drawings and paintings up in my…

— Chace Crawford

“Either you are an artist or you use AI, you cannot do both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

— Chuck Close

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

— Peter Paul Rubens

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

— Philip Guston

I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.

— Zachary Levi