Painting Quote by Robert Baldwin Ross Download Open image ““There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.”” — Robert Baldwin Ross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting Truth
“I think, in art, it is as noble a thing as to to try to make people happy, to help them escape, as it… — Lucy Foley Copy Share Image
“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.” — M.P. Shiel Copy Share Image
“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core of money.” — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art.” — Charles Sovek Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same… — Luther E. Vann Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
“Don't paint your own period; paint your own country, your own thoughts, your own personality; paint the thoughts and the aspirations of your contemporaries,… — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, most of them no bigger than a tea tray. Their thin browns, ashy grays, and muted blues made people speak softly to one another, as if a shouted word might curdle one of the paintings and… — Steve Martin Copy Share
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares at the bird's bright orange eyes. Like the color of the bird's wings in the painting. Or the small touch of lichen on the rock by the Japanese woman's foot. Natalia did not truly see the… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
