Painting Quotes · Page 97

Remember the time we used to get on the computer just for paint?

— Anonymous

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

— Chris Rea

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

— Chris Zylka

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,

— Donald Judd

“A canvas needs to be seduced; but Van Gogh, he, he raped it.”

— Zouave Milliet

In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music.

— Mark Lanegan

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

— Julian Schnabel

“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.”

— Django Wexler

In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army…

— Vik Muniz

I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting…

— Kevin Kwan

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the…

— Laura Owens

The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on…

— Mike Wells

“When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the…

— John Twelve Hawks

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have…

— Sebastiao Salgado

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by…

— Robert Genn

There are people who lie like a great painter painting a masterpiece or a great author writing his or her greatest novel.…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is…

— Anish Kapoor

“Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists "make" drawings and paintings while…

— Susan Sontag

“After tidying the kitchen, Claire walked upstairs and found Tyler in the hallway, lost in thought as he rearranged his paintings hanging…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was…

— Brie Larson

Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware…

— Ron Padgett

So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you…

— Ellen Hopkins

“A writer’s brush is a warrior’s bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

— Peter Greenaway

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

Don't put too much make up. It's called a face.. Not a painting.

— Zank

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

— Michelangelo

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

— Baltasar Gracian

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

— Paul Scofield

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

— Jackson Pollock

“The universe has been painting its creations with many of the same brushes.” “Do”

— Nathan Van Coops

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

— Marcel Duchamp

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

— Harold Town

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

— Philip Guston

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

“Writing is like a charcoal painting, a black and white story”

— Dave McDonald

“Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of”

— Josh Stern

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell