Painting Quotes · Page 94

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young…

— Hozier

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

— Edouard Manet

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

— Henry Moore

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

— Hans Hofmann

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

— Patricia Highsmith

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

— Pablo Picasso

“You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.”

— R.K. Lilley

I can be any color you can imagine. You see me in everyday life. I have been around for many, many years,…

— Babloo

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“I think that a good portrait reveals a suggestion of the subject’s mind, and not just a representation of how they look.…

— Elizabeth Ross

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the…

— David Salle

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph…

— Edvard Munch

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers,…

— Wyndham Lewis

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no…

— Edvard Munch

I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism…

— James D'arcy

I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that…

— Caio Fonseca

These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even…

— Gerhard Richter

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you…

— Gus Van Sant

The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.…

— Joe Bradley

“cautiously. “Mark Rothko? Is that when he got Alizée’s paintings from Eleanor Roosevelt?” “He gets the painting from the other one.” I…

— B.A. Shapiro

The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what…

— Alva Noe

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a…

— Jane Yolen

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

— Pablo Picasso

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

She can paint a lovley picture, but the story has a twist...her paint brush is a razor...and her canvouse is her wrist.

— Alicia Tschantre

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

— Sydney Banks

“Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.”

— Jarod Kintz

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

— Dan Fogelberg

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

— Mark Rothko

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

— Josef Albers

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

— Abe Ajay

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

— Yves Klein

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.

— Frank Shamrock

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

— Plutarch

Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.

— Winston Churchill