Painting Quotes · Page 99

“Canvas, then you must define the Bitmap upon which drawing will actually be performed. The”

— Anonymous

“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,”

— Pete Hamill

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

— Victoria Wood

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

— Jackson Pollock

“Now I'm standing in black stiletto heels in the middle of a Norman Rockwell painting.”

— Katja Millay

“Life is a beautiful canvas, paint it with passion and diligence. Don't scribble on it with regrets.”

— Priyansha Vashi

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

— Billy Childish

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the…

— Robert Genn

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out…

— Kehinde Wiley

Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It's something you can hold, pore over the lyrics,…

— Steven Wilson

“When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those…

— Frank Gehry

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? If you hear a voice within saying ‘You are not…

— Vincent van Gogh

The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody…

— Amy Sillman

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,…

— Diane Lane

Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in…

— Rob Manuel

Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing…

— Jackson Pollock

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that…

— Charles Baudelaire

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular…

— Alton Tobey

I like as much time as I can get and I'll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role.…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

— Ben Eine

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

— Heinrich Heine

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

— Walter J. Phillips

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

— Umberto Boccioni

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

— Sol LeWitt

I want an exhibition one day, so I am doing portraits of rock stars. I paint from pictures in magazines.

— Fearne Cotton

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

— John Dyer

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

— Glenn Ligon

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do…

— Jenny Holzer

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes