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The whole scene had a dreamlike quality, like a Chagall painting come to life. — Lev Grossman

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali

Use your own paint; colour your world — Israelmore Ayivor

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

Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again. — Bryce Dessner

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker ... I've gotten into some curious situations ... — Jamie Wyeth

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. — Chuck Jones

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. — Robert Rauschenberg

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. — Maurice De Vlaminck

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. — Diane Lane

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished. — Neil Welliver

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. — Peter Paul Rubens

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 have sworn to die painting. — Paul Cezanne

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home. — Nina Jacobson

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes. — Grace Jones

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting. — Jose Parla

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job. — Marcel Duchamp

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values. — Theodore Robinson

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings. — Evgeni Kostitsyn

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy. — George Tooker

Why don't we keep that secret? Hunters will lose their reputations if we're seen saving puppies and painting flowers. — Katherine McIntyre

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. — Julian Schnabel

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside. — James Rosenquist

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me. — Edward Hopper

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed. — Vincent Van Gogh

When one is painting one does not think. — Raphael

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation. — John Currin

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting. — Allen Lacy

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me. — Jasper Johns

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. — Howard Hodgkin

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting. — Jeff Koons

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business — Nas

Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists. — Jon Favreau

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican. — Diego Rivera

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community. — SpaceGhostPurrp

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting. — Peter Greenaway

She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting — Jandy Nelson

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. — Vincent Gallo

What could be said about me ... a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well. — Claude Monet

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting. — James Rosenquist

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it. — Ellen Gallagher

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting. — Kevin Brownlow

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.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. — Jasper Johns

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting. — Jackson Pollock

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that. — John Mellencamp

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. — Georges Rouault

Painting working! — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

I'm not going to sit for some painting. That's so 1800s. I'm not doing that. — Jason Chaffetz

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it. — Milton Avery

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

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more. — Florence Welch

Dutch painting: daily life is enough. — Mason Cooley

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. — Michelangelo

...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

You are a beautiful lady. I won't deny that. But there's a difference between admiring a painting and wanting to buy it. — Jaima Fixsen

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy. — Colin Farrell

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something. — Joshua Greenberg

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. — Jack Levine

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

One must act in painting as in life, directly. — Pablo Picasso

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. — Quentin Blake

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people — Edgar Degas

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books. — Kim Richardson

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature ... Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting. — James Rosenquist

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting. — Albert Camus

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Every painting tells a story. — A.D. Posey

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool. — Rachel Kushner

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world. — Caio Fonseca

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result. — Jackson Pollock

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. — Tim Fargo

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase. — Edward Ruscha

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting. — Melissa Brown

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner. — Billy Childish

My painting does not come from the easel. — Jackson Pollock

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half! — Frank Lloyd Wright

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value ... — Mark Tobey

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not. — Grimes

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali

I FEEL NO SHAME ABOUT HAVING PAINTINGS BE AS GRANDIOSE AND RIDICULOUS AS POSSIBLE. — Laura Owens

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested. — E.L. Konigsburg

The big picture is that there is no big picture.
That's why we keep painting it. — Ronald Sukenick

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

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal. — Marcel Duchamp

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard. — George Eads

The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
— Oprah Winfrey