Painting Quotes · Page 95

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

— William Hogarth

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

— Agnes Martin

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love…

— Sean Scully

“Life is a Canvas given to you to see how colourful you can make it”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

— Asger Jorn

Show your true colors. Those who truly love you will see a painting.

— Anonymous

When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush and camera to connect with myself and the…

— Deepti Naval

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

— Simonides

Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

— Jessica Alba

“The power of beauty Lies within our soul And how we choose To see everything It is not found from The strokes…

— Apple Blossom

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is…

— Richard Avedon

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one…

— Edgar Degas

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

— Jamie Wyeth

“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are…

— John Berger

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very…

— Billy Boyd

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

— Marsden Hartley

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are…

— Frank Stella

It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous…

— A. Y. Jackson

“the painter, Cezanne, would leave blank spaces on his canvas when he couldn’t account for the brush strokes, or the color”--- “How…

— John Guare

“:Paintings are easy to see," he said after a moment. "Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have…

— Catherine Fisher

Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -…

— Kehinde Wiley

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity…

— Wayne Thiebaud

I always wanted to play music, but my family was more interested in handing me paints and markers. Art was always my…

— Kathleen Hanna

Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am…

— April Gornik

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

— Elaine de Kooning

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”

— Roman Payne

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

— E. O. Wilson

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

— Scott Avett

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

— Kazuaki Tanahashi

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

— Jackson Pollock

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

— Zaytoven

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

— Jackson Pollock

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

— Rabindranath Tagore

I paint on and off, not very regularly. But since I was in school, I had an inclination for it.

— Bhumika Chawla

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

— Damien Hirst

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

— Thomas Eakins

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

— Pablo Picasso

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

— Gertrude Stein

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

— James Whistler