Painting Quotes · Page 84

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

— Armie Hammer

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

— James Rosenquist

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

— David Choe

God is the artist, nature is his canvas, and I'm just the admirer of his work.

— Elizabeth Homp

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

— Kevin Henkes

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

— Sergei Bongart

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the…

— Claude Monet

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is…

— Benny Hill

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am…

— Terry Pratchett

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite…

— Michael Ironside

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal.…

— James Rosenquist

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“A butterfly is a travelling flower, turning the air into a garden and carrying the poetry of spring on wings painted by…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep…

— Pierre Soulages

“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bight and finished product mended with bluff…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create…

— Arnold Friberg

I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's…

— Jimenez Lai

The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an…

— Pablo Picasso

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back.…

— Ad Reinhardt

“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till…

— P.G. Wodehouse

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

— Dan Brown

“painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack”

— Arundhati Roy

Unless you have strong roots in films, music, art, painting, or theatre, you can't talk high and think internationally.

— Shabana Azmi

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

— Mason Cooley

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

— Pablo Picasso

“Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.”

— William H. Gass

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

— William Shakespeare

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

— Ang Lee

“If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”

— David Lynch

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

— Titian

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I…

— Andy Warhol

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

— Claude Monet

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

— Max Nordau

I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

— Peter Max