Painted Quotes

547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and… — Dogen
In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it… — Robert Motherwell
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. — Robert Henri
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside. — Paul Cezanne
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those… — Paul Cezanne
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way… — Emily Carr
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great… — Lucian Freud
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. — Lucian Freud
Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being… — Morris Graves
I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it. — Winslow Homer
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully… — Yves Klein
Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene… — Prem Rawat
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures… — Norman Rockwell
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone… — Ai Weiwei
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. — Charles Saatchi
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of… — Walter J. Phillips
Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do? — Eric Maisel
If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years. — John F. Carlson
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when… — Walter Darby Bannard
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its… — Fernando Botero

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