Art Painting Quotes
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Art Painting Quotes & Sayings
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I created "Bouquets In Fantasia" when I was strictly painting in the genre of "Fantasy Flower Art".
— Minnelli Lucy France
I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.
— Stefan Bachmann
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!
— Max Liebermann
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
... Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting ...
— Claude Monet
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
Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it
— Mark Rubinstein
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
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
— Giotto Di Bondone
It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
— Francis Bacon
Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.
— Karl Pilkington
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
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
— Philip Pearlstein
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
— Edward Hopper
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
— John F. Carlsons
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
— Louis L'Amour
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
— Peter Wright
the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes
already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls
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
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
— Gerhard Richter
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
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air
— Jandy Nelson
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
— Niki De Saint Phalle
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
— Hans Hofmann
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
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing ...
— Hiroko Sakai
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
— Keith Haring
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
— Pablo Picasso
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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
All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
— Joyce Cary
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
— Robert Henri
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
— John Burnside
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
Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
— Winston S. Churchill
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
— Georges Braque
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
— Philip Guston
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
— Shirley Eaton
Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.
— Tara Dobbs
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
— Walter Darby Bannard
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
— Criss Jami
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
— Pablo Picasso
You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.
— Pablo Picasso
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
— Edmond De Goncourt
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
— Gustave Courbet
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 arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.
— Cesar Vallejo
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
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
My painting does not come from the easel.
— Jackson Pollock
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
...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.
— Hannah Mary Rothschild
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
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
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
My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
— Chantal Sutherland
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
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
The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.
— Thomas Lloyd Qualls
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
My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
— J. M. W. Turner
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
— Conrad Hall
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
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
— Harvey Pekar
I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.
— Arshile Gorky
A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
— Damien Hirst
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
— Salman Rushdie
What has reason to do with the art of painting?
— William Blake