Painting Quotes
2506 quotes by 1233 authors
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was…
— Dan Aykroyd
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a…
— David Bailey
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My paintings are rubbish.
— David Bailey
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
— Ansel Adams
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
— Balthus
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the…
— Balthus
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
— Honore de Balzac
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Most women are not as young as they are painted.
— Max Beerbohm
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I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you…
— John Berger
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred…
— Aeschylus
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