Painting Quotes · Page 80

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

— Paul Cezanne

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it…

— Yoko Ono

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

— Robert Genn

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

— Anastasia Soare

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

— Dolley Madison

All through the 'Guttertown' record, there's happy, there's sad, there's strange - and I'm painting that picture.

— Hank Williams III

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing…

— E. J. Hughes

I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves,…

— Jose Parla

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just…

— Eric Fischl

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind…

— Gregory Colbert

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture…

— Dan Rice

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of…

— Alice Neel

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing…

— Michelangelo

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and…

— Mike Royer

It was a figure painting class, where you had a model, and [Robert von Neumann ] would wander around and he'd come…

— Warren MacKenzie

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd…

— Colin Blakemore

“As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become…

— Andrew Loomis

When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And,…

— Neil Burger

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted…

— Robert Rauschenberg

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,…

— Robert Hughes

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things…

— Norman Reedus

I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history…

— Philip Taaffe

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is…

— Kami Garcia

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

— Robert Orben

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

— Kehinde Wiley

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for…

— E. J. Hughes

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

— Pablo Picasso

Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.

— Jeremiah Brent

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Every job is a self portrait of a person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

— Anonymous

There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm.

— Nina Dobrev

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

— Wilhelm Bode

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

— Amy Sherald

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Just like the brush in the painters hand we have no idea where we are.

— Ritu Ghatourey

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

— Robert Motherwell

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

— Samuel Barnett

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

— Oprah Winfrey