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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through — Dan Rice

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

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk. — Charles Dickens

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

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. — Ivan Klima

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

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. — Claude Monet

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I'm heaven's landscape painter. — Bauvard

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

Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them. — Bill Watterson

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 success
the signature is blurred — Kelli Russell Agodon

My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. — Yann Martel

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

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus

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

Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our medium. — C.M. Stunich

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. — Leonardo Da Vinci

A painting was a translation of the language of my heart. — Amy Tan

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

Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile? — Shawn Lukas

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

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting. — Ahdaf Soueif

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

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness. — Robert Genn

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

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. — Joan Miro

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

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. — Kelly Miller

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. — Aristotle.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist. — John Travolta

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. — Rembrandt

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

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law,
The work of heaven and of the first cause. — Su Shi

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it. — Patricia Highsmith

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. — James Gray

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping. — Robert Breault

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. — Banksy

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