Painting Quotes · Page 98

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

— Aesop Rock

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

— Norman Davies

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

— Bridget Riley

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

When I'm in the game, in the paint, I try to use my height and help the team.

— Boban Marjanovic

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

— Edward Steichen

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

— Christopher Reeve

“Being able to draw well’, he goes on, ‘is the hardest thing – far harder than painting, as one can easily see…

— Martin Gayford

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too…

— Donald Judd

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the…

— Malcolm Morley

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place.…

— Ad Reinhardt

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough…

— Jason Newsted

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes…

— Anonymous

Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly…

— Miranda July

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes…

— Robert Rauschenberg

“ART The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only…

— Jay Woodman

“For the great eras in the history of the development of all the arts have been eras not of increased feeling or…

— Oscar Wilde

It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I…

— John Dyer Baizley

Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come…

— Guity Novin

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have…

— Barry McGee

The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves…

— Andrew Peterson

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for…

— Anonymous

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

— Pablo Picasso

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

— Jane Seymour

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and…

— Faith Ringgold

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

— Tom Wolfe

“God designed human fatherhood to be a portrait of himself.”

— John Piper

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

— David Lynch

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

— Michelangelo

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

— Frances Stark

Woman are like aesthetic paintings, each unique in their own way.

— John Miller

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

Don't paint me as how you see me in your eyes because you still don't know the whole part of me...

— Leonora R Aquino

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

— Anonymous