Best Painting Words
2506 Painting quotes by 1181 unique authors
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One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.
— Marc Chagall
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A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.
— Mark Rothko
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It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
— Paul Cezanne
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I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth…
— Marc Chagall
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What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and…
— Marc Chagall
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More than a process, painting is being possessed...
— Philip Guston
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There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.
— Philip Guston
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Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls…
— Philip Guston
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Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
— Max Ernst
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Fill a space in a beautiful way.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle...
— Balthus
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
— Balthus
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As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound…
— James Whistler
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When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
— Joan Miro
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Painting is by nature a luminous language.
— Robert Delaunay
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I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Basically painting is total idiocy.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.
— Frank Auerbach
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After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
— Caspar David Friedrich
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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within,…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.
— Giotto di Bondone
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