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Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
— Edmund Burke
Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.
— Gustave Courbet
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
— Caio Fonseca
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
— Robert McKee
I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.
— Gerhard Richter
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
— Albrecht Durer
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
— Jackson Pollock
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
— Gerhard Richter
I'm not a habitual practitioner of the art of face-painting.
— Akiko Higashimura
Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.
— Jenny Saville
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
— Robert Indiana
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
— Edward Hopper
One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.
— Piet Mondrian
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
— Walter J. Phillips
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
— John F. Carlsons
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
— Vincent Van Gogh
In the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred — Kelli Russell Agodon
Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.
— C.S. Lewis
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
— Wayne Thiebaud
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
— Shailene Woodley
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.
— Gerhard Richter
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
— Francisco Goya
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
— Salvador Dali
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
— Paul Cezanne
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
— William Baziotes
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
— Fernando Botero
Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.
— Neville Weston
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
— Gustave Courbet
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.
— Shooter Jennings
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
— Robert Henri
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
— Robert Delaunay
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
— Albrecht Durer
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.
— Robert Breault
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ... " You're going to end up with a big green painting.
— John Baldessari
The pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.
— Walter Shaw Sparrow
A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
— Criss Jami
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
— Patton Oswalt
If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal
— Susan Vreeland
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
— Winston Churchill
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
— Thomas Hoving
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting ... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
— Jerome Robbins
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.
— Giorgio Moroder
What has reason to do with the art of painting?
— William Blake
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
— Edward G. Robinson
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
— Walter Darby Bannard
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
— Pablo Picasso
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
— Jackie Kennedy
I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
— John Travolta
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
— Caio Fonseca
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
— Sara Sheridan
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.
— Patricia Highsmith
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
— Robert Breault
My paintings are only the ashes of my art
— Yves Klein
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.
— Anthony Burgess
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
— Marshall McLuhan
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
— Roy Lichtenstein
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
— Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.
— Edgar Alwin Payne
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.
— John Olsen
The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.
— Neville Weston
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
— Georges Braque
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
— Robert Henri
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
— Peter Wright
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.
— Joseph Heller
The painting has a life of its own
— Jackson Pollock
Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit. It's about ideas. And you, he said, have enough good ideas to last a lifetime.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air
— Jandy Nelson