Painting Quotes · Page 87

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

— Damien Hirst

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

— William Baziotes

“Well, then, let’s not just trust the likelihood based on painting.”

— Socrates

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

— Michael Leunig

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

— Lee Krasner

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

— Sylvester Stallone

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

— David Hockney

In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,…

— Burton Silverman

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension…

— Henry Moore

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out…

— Reynolds Price

Being creative and emotional, artistes sometimes go through difficult phases in life, but one has to look at life as a bigger…

— Saswata Chatterjee

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from…

— Milton Friedman

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without…

— Joan Miro

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills…

— David Cobley

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this…

— Michael Craig-Martin

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to…

— Wynn Bullock

Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the…

— Guity Novin

“Aesthetic ideals emerging from Zen art focus heavily on naturalness, on the emphasis of man's relation to nature. The Zen artists, as…

— Thomas Hoover

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why…

— Oscar Wilde

Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs…

— Joseph Kosuth

The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state,…

— Gerhard Richter

For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm…

— Nate Lowman

I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through…

— Anonymous

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

— Edwin Landseer

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

— Anonymous

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

She paints a loving picture, but there's a twist. The paintbrush is a razor and the canvas her wrist.

— Ify Amaechi

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

— Klaus Kinski

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

— Robert Rauschenberg

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

— Pablo Picasso

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

— Kenneth Noland

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

— Pierre Soulages

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

— Jack Levine

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

— John Lithgow

“The Bible is not a painting to be looked at, but a window to be looked through, and through that window we…

— Bruxy Cavey

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

— Paula Scher

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros