Painting Quotes

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the th...

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his por...

both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels ...

The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them...

Boomer had asked her once, in a telephone call from Virginia, “Why does this stuff, these hand-paint...

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk ...

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have h...

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are m...

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings an...

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or com...

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, cha...

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ...

. . . there were masses of pictures she had not seen; however, Lily Briscoe reflected, perhaps it wa...

And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there ro...

Writing is the painting of the voice.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without d...

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is...

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: archite...

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (...

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real...

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that neede...

Yet the misty spring rain softened the outline of the mountain across the river and made it even mor...

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevit...

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet ...

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more i...

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ...

For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, conte...

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a...

Lets build a happy little cloud.Lets build some happy little trees.

Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.

When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because you caught glimpses of he...

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to ke...

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. ...

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where the...

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty th...

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about grav...

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you coul...

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this pai...

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in ...

Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee m...

Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for th...

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a singl...

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or i...

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in wor...

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then ...

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguis...

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he...

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really y...

To paint is to love again, live again, see again. To get up at the crack of dawn in order to take a ...

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy w...

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!

The painting has a life of its own

Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking- glass, that night when he got back ...

My painting does not come from the easel.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I...

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Roy...

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I...

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, ...

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contem...

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism,...

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a b...

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at ...

It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of mome...

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writin...

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University C...

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For...

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.