Painting Life Quotes: top 99 famous quotes about Painting Life

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My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things. — Tony Bennett

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

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events. — Ram Dass

Otherwise he stayed in the background, a small figure in a painting, while life was played out in the foreground. However, — Nina George

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

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper

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

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind. — George W. Bush

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful. — Don Roff

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. — Ivan Klima

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

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. — Jackson Pollock

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting. — Henri Matisse

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. — Georges Braque

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

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves. — William C. Wright

We make our own music.
We paint our own future. — A.P. Sweet

Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it. — Daniel Habil

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. — Tony Curtis

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. — Yann Martel

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. — Kanye West

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. — Peter James West

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had — Francis Bacon

There are moments when clear images finally begin to emerge within the abstract painting of your life. — Renee Carlino

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive. — Paul Cezanne

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account ... — Hiroko Sakai

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. — Michael Dolan

Not even by colourfully painting my window can I block out the noise of the life outside, which doesn't know I'm observing it. — Anonymous

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside. — John Dyer

Life is like a painting; make yours a masterpiece. — Vikrmn

It's not about getting over things, it's about making room for them. It's about painting the picture with contrast. — Brianna Wiest

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

Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do. — Fennel Hudson

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. — Harold Rosenberg

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity. — Charles Bukowski

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer

think of daily life as an ever-moving three-dimensional painting with you as the artist, — Jane Roberts

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

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. — Mary Russell Mitford

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting. — Mark Bradford

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo

My life is a creative act
like a painting, or a concerto. — Ram Dass

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it ... painting is one's private life. — Edgar Degas

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art. — Shaun Jeffrey

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting. — Pierre Bonnard

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. — Robert Henri

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner. — Rajneesh

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

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete ... to be completed in the mind of the viewer. — Russell Chatham

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next. — Les Wexner

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together. — Jeremy Collier

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see. — Winston S. Churchill

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE" ... To whom?.. To where? ... Where am I going to ... ? — Hiroko Sakai

The painting has a life of its own — Jackson Pollock

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting. — Charlotte Rampling

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical. — Barnett Newman

Life's a vast sea
That does its mighty errand without fail,
Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. — George Eliot

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

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting. — John Piper

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too. — Harvey Dunn

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

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

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

Dutch painting: daily life is enough. — Mason Cooley

Painting completed my life. — Frida Kahlo

My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. — Yann Martel

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey. — Winston Churchill

But painting can be too lonely ... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work. — Marie Windsor

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

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. — Eddie Cahill

I wish to die painting. — Paul Cezanne

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery. — Deb Caletti

We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life. — Steven Redhead

It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world. — Rosamund Hodge

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn

He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful. — Tor Udall

I want to create, not kill. — Susanne Dunlap

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting. — Stephen Beal

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

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. — Jackson Pollock

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

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting. — Beth Orton

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

Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed. — Atalina Wright