Painting Quotes · Page 91

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

— Minoru Yamasaki

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

— Umberto Boccioni

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

— Walter J. Phillips

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do…

— Jenny Holzer

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

— Glenn Ligon

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

— John Dyer

I want an exhibition one day, so I am doing portraits of rock stars. I paint from pictures in magazines.

— Fearne Cotton

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw…

— Roy Lichtenstein

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I…

— James Frey

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

— Pablo Picasso

At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should…

— Black Thought

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting…

— Warren MacKenzie

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much…

— Alton Tobey

I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good…

— Sean Lock

I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that…

— Fran Lebowitz

In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable…

— Mark Doty

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the…

— David Wojnarowicz

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

— Sol LeWitt

“Waiting to create sensual art with your fingers as brushstrokes and my body your blank canvas.”

— Christina Strigas

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

— Ted Godwin

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

— Winston Churchill

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

— Gwen John

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

— Nan Goldin

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

— Robert Henri

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

— Nelson Shanks

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

— Domenico Gnoli

“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse”

— Volkmar Essers

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg