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Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.
— Gustave Courbet
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
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
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
... 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
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
— Albert Camus
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
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
— Daniel J. Rice
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
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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
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
Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting
— Leonardo Da Vinci
I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.
— Scott McClanahan
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
— Philip Pearlstein
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
— Vincent Van Gogh
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
— Sarah Gavron
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
— Oscar Wilde
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
— Pablo Picasso
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
— Gustave Courbet
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
— Paul Cezanne
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
— Criss Jami
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
— Robert Henri
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.
— Kia Carrington-Russell
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
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
The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.
— Ellie Lieberman
It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.
— William Zinsser
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
— Brad Holland
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
— Tom Stoppard
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, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.
— Gerhard Richter
She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.
— Akshay Vasu
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.
— Harold Rosenberg
...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.
— Hannah Mary Rothschild
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
— Conrad Hall
My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
— Chantal Sutherland
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 business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
— J. M. W. Turner
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
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
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
— Gerhard Richter
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
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
— Philip Guston
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
— Georges Braque
Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
— Winston S. Churchill
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
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
— Pablo Picasso
Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single reader.
— Giuseppe Bianco
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.
— Gregory Of Nyssa
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.- 1959, from a catalogue — Robert Rauschenberg
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
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.
— Patricia Highsmith
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
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
— Damien Hirst
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
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
Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.
— Michael Muhammad Knight
