Painting Quotes · Page 79

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

— Gerhard Richter

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

— Jackson Pollock

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

— Lou Barlow

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

— Robyn Davidson

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable

~She paints a pretty picture but this picture has a twist her paintbrush is a razor and her canvas is her wrist~< 3

— Shes_gone

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

— George Bernard Shaw

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

— Sam Francis

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials…

— Robert Henri

“Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence…

— Jean Renoir

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. the sitter is merely the…

— Oscar Wilde

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my…

— E. J. Hughes

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy…

— Robert Henri

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it…

— Joshua Reynolds

“Whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong. You're right." "If you think in pictures, write. If you think in…

— Krista Kedrick

“The painter once believed in something, but now he paints only a hole without meaning, without anything- nothing but nothingness, the nothingness…

— George Grosz

“The actor can learn from the painter about the emotive power of facial expressions. The painter from the designer, about the potential…

— Frank Chimero

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at…

— Paul Gauguin

There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale…

— Dana Schutz

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very…

— Clive Barker

It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not…

— Lisa Gerrard

I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm…

— Vik Muniz

You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or…

— Owen Wilson

I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river…

— Aldo Leopold

“I'm often painted as the bad kid, The other side of me wants to hand out the brush”

— Patrick Cruz

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

— Guido Molinari

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

— PJ Harvey

George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix…

— David Letterman

Remind your students today that every piece of work completed is a self-portrait of the one who did it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

— Vera Farmiga

The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.

— Suzanne Collins

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

— Peter Malkin

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

— Brahmananda Saraswati

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

— Jerry Saltz

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.

— Oliver Cromwell

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

— Robert Henri

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs -…

— Celia Imrie

Life is like a painting, you can paint it to look like anything...

— Hannah Aliyah Edge

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp