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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

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious. — Frank Stella

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

A painting is life and a painting is death ... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. — Ivan Albright

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

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. — David Lynch

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

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

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. — Willem De Kooning

My painting is a contest
between life and sleep. — Francis Picabia

She looked just like a painting dying to speak. — Aeschylus

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it. — Ivan Eyre

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

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy. — Antony Sher

When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next. — Walter Darby Bannard

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

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

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

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

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense. — Walter J. Phillips

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

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

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome. — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat. — Shunryu Suzuki

[The Creator] shines in the cosmic consciousness as a painting in the mind of an artist. — Swami Venkatesananda

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs. — John F. Carlsons

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

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

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song — Royal Robbins

A man posing for a painting. — David Hume

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose ... — Claude Monet

Summer-damn-Quinn saw the world as if it was a painting waiting to be created. I only saw her. — Kelly Moran

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me. — Janet Evanovich

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond De Goncourt

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt. — Faith Ringgold

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

A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting. — Ian Chappell

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting. — Edward Weston

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. — Mason Cooley

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself. — Anne Jackson

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting. — Thomas Hardy

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world. — Callum Keith Rennie

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling. — Tara Dobbs

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected. — Georges Braque

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers. — Ray Bradbury

I am going to do some drawings or paintings ... in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something. — Gwen John

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it. — Lila Acheson Wallace

Every song is like a painting. — Dick Dale

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression — Richard Diebenkorn

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting ... every generation must start again afresh. — Maurice De Vlaminck

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. — Fritz Scholder

You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it. — Roger De Grey

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives. — Pierre Soulages

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can. — Nolan Gerard Funk

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. — Yoko Ono

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject. — Keith Shackleton

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either. — Donald O'Connor

When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do. — Mark Bradford

Her painting was vaporous and unsubstantial, but it had a flowerlike grace and even a certain careless elegance. There — W. Somerset Maugham

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

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance. — Martin Mull

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. — Conor Oberst

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

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

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

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.

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