Painting Quotes · Page 88

My interest in India began with my interest in Indian painting and music and that grew.

— James Ivory

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

— Jay Leno

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

— Julian Schnabel

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

— Kim Weston

“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still”

— Lian Hearn

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

— Benjamin West

Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially…

— Gerhard Richter

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's…

— David Lynch

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation.…

— JWoww

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a…

— Mike Svob

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play…

— Judy Chicago

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul,…

— William Cowper

I started my own chat show on Instagram, that also takes time. Then, I have also been singing and painting. I actually…

— Sayani Gupta

I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed…

— Kehinde Wiley

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes…

— Kerry James Marshall

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer…

— Gerhard Richter

I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about…

— Cory Arcangel

In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry…

— Nell Scovell

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,…

— Irving Penn

“I'd painted nearly every surface in the main room. And not with just broad swaths of colour, but with decorations- little images.…

— Sarah J. Maas

It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library…

— Kehinde Wiley

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

— Honore de Balzac

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

— Julian Schnabel

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something…

— Scott Hastie

She can paint a lovely picture, but the story has a twist. Her paintbrush is a razor, her canvas is her wrist.

— Anonymous

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

— Paul Stanley

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

— Celine Dion

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

— Gerald Brommer

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

— John Gossage

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

— Kathe Kollwitz

Life is like a beautiful painting. One where you can create your own masterpiece.

— Jordan Williamson

An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

— Robert Genn

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

— Kiana Tom

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

— Lila Acheson Wallace