Painting Quotes

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.

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles...

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't r...

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and ...

And if it is true that the image still has the function of speaking, of transmitting something consu...

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artis...

Sunlight is painting.

Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image o...

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole h...

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,...

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping st...

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people wh...

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells h...

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People...

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in...

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

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 ...