Painting Quotes · Page 92

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

— Hartley Coleridge

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

— Pablo Picasso

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

— Tiko Kerr

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

— Frank Delaney

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

— Joan Miro

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

— Georg Baselitz

You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before…

— Ari Shaffir

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience…

— Richard Serra

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed.…

— Susan Griffin

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you…

— Cy Twombly

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public…

— Banksy

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've…

— Donald Barthelme

I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not…

— Carine Roitfeld

I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or…

— Lily Cole

“He's often wished that he could capture the full essence of each woman's laugh on canvas, but he settles instead, on watching…

— Adam Gallari

Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier…

— Jim Rohn

Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents…

— Joan Miro

The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only…

— Joaquin Sorolla

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned…

— Duane Michals

“I visit him a few times downtown while he paints. We talk about how he's going to Spain for the fall semester…

— Samantha Schutz

When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs…

— Klaus Teuber

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

— Chuck Jones

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

— Christopher Priest

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

— Kehinde Wiley

and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.

— Charles Bukowski

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

— Daniel Dennett

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

— Alexander Eliot

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

— Joseph Joubert

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

— Mark Rothko

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

— Gerhard Richter

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

— Dave Barry