Good Painting Quotes

20 Good Painting quotes by 19 unique authors

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. — George Nelson
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music… — Michelangelo
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because… — Georgia O'Keeffe
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention… — Paul Cezanne
I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper,… — David Hockney
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. — Mark Rothko
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. — Maurice de Vlaminck
A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed. — Vincent Van Gogh
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world,… — Robert Musil
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond… — Guy Consolmagno
Never ruin a good painting with the truth. — Henri Matisse
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and… — Eli Siegel
Anything is good painting material once you get to know it. — David Milne
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling. — Walter Darby Bannard
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before… — Richard Schmid
A good painting has to do about 12 things at once. — Joe Bradley
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. — Hedy Lamarr
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. — Michelangelo
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity… — Banksy
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter

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