Painting Quotes · Page 90

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

— Willa Ford

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

— Martin Scorsese

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

I could have been an artist painting pictures and I would have fell in love with Oakland.

— Too Short

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

— Okakura Kakuzo

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

— Paul Simonon

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

— Roma Downey

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works…

— Richard Branson

It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.

— Ellen Ullman

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art…

— Rudyard Kipling

[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration…

— Johnny Cash

“Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw…

— James A. Murphy

Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and…

— Paul Theroux

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and…

— Walter Gropius

The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they…

— Heinz Kohut

I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and…

— Mickalene Thomas

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the…

— Claes Oldenburg

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If…

— Damien Hirst

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one,…

— Oscar Wilde

Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about…

— Bruce Cockburn

Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.

— William McGregor Paxton

Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.

— Benigno Aquino III

My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

— Laura Owens

“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.”

— Pablo Picasso

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

— Paul Cezanne

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

— Eddie Murphy

“Love is like paint - you can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.”

— Wayne L Misner

“Life is an empty canvas, we have to paint it every moment of life”

— elvis laren

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

— Blaise Pascal

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like.

— Daryl Palumbo

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

— Anthony Hopkins

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

— Warren G. Bennis

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes