Painting Quotes · Page 78

The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one.

— Hemistich

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

— William Shakespeare

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

— Ben Nicholson

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

— David Hockney

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

— Chantal Sutherland

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

— Grace Slick

I spent a lot of time being creative as a child - painting, drawing and writing poetry.

— Bugzy Malone

“Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost…

— Pascale Petit

Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human…

— Keith Devlin

Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I…

— Sophie Blackall

“Magritte’s painting The Human Condition. The real-world 3-D scene and the 2-D painting on the canvas create the same pattern of light…

— Brian J Rogers

“Humans tend to cling on to a picture that was painted in front of their eyes, instead of opening up their mind…

— Lionel Suggs

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home…

— Robert Genn

Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

If you can really accept the fact that every time you think a thought and every time you speak a word you…

— Louise Hay

If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting…

— Bruce Campbell

When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“For there is a life there, and in destiny and romance there is no room for life. Painted as they are with…

— Ken Dryden

“The scenic vistas of North Carolina and Tennessee make you feel like you're looking at a work of art, but crossing through…

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action…

— Milton Resnick

We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to…

— Paul Kurtz

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

— David Lynch

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

— Andrew Wyeth

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

— Winslow Homer

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

— Todd Hido

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

— Georges Seurat

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

— David Gelernter

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

— Barry McGee

I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

— Leonor Fini

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

— Edvard Munch

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint...

— Bruce Springsteen

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

— Chuck Close

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

— Charles M. Blow

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen