Great Painting Quotes
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Great Painting Quotes & Sayings
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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
— Edward Hopper
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.
— Robert Breault
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
— John Milius
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.
— Michele Cassou
A great painting is a great painting.
— Larry Poons
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
— Janet Malcolm
Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.
— Peter Paul Rubens
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
— Warren G. Bennis
I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.
— Paul Gauguin
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.
— Charles Saatchi
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
— David Lynch
Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.
— Patti Smith
I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.
— John Lithgow
Acting, music, painting ... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.
— Billy Boyd
If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.
— Fritz Scholder
And if what they say is true
if every great painting is really a self-portrait
what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself? — Donna Tartt
if every great painting is really a self-portrait
what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself? — Donna Tartt
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.
— Gerhard Richter
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
— Peter Doig
Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.
— Okakura Kakuzo
You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
— Damien Hirst
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind ...
— Leon Battista Alberti
All great art is praise.
— John Ruskin
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
— Winston Churchill
Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.
— Winston Churchill
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
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.
— Thomas Kinkade
Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.
— Carol Brearley
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.
— Edith Wharton
I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.
— Harlan Coben
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 still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.
— Harold Town
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
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry
— Thomas Cole