Painting Quotes · Page 89

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

— E. J. Hughes

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

— Louis Leakey

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

— Peter Doig

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

— Andrew Lam

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

— Helen Frankenthaler

I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group." I want to write down this idea of a group…

— Fred Armisen

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

— Wassily Kandinsky

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you…

— Ad Reinhardt

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then…

— Henri Matisse

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage…

— Israel Horovitz

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor…

— Richard Schmid

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is…

— Toni Morrison

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still,…

— Frank Stella

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the…

— Paul McCartney

At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto,…

— Jean Chretien

In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within…

— George Frederic Watts

Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat…

— Michael Jackson

There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point…

— Hilaire Belloc

I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has…

— Tony Shafrazi

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work…

— Aaron Scharf

Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.

— Robert Glasper

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

— Horace Pippin

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

— David Hockney

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Rework on yourself. Even the finest masterpiece are not painted with the very first stroke of brush.”

— Sk Muskan Tabasum

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

— Deb Caletti

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

— Margaret Atwood

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

— Julian Eltinge

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

— Eugene Delacroix

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting,

— Andrea Illy

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

— Heart Evangelista

We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

— Bernie Glassman

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer