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In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster. — John O'Neill

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. — Edmund Burke

I created "Bouquets In Fantasia" when I was strictly painting in the genre of "Fantasy Flower Art". — Minnelli Lucy France

Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting. — Shaun Tan

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by. — James Rosenquist

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. — Kazimir Malevich

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others. — Michel Eugene Chevreul

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in ... Ruskin's Elements. — Claude Monet

Nature engenders the science of painting. — Robert Delaunay

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

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it. — Rosanne Cash

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. — Edward Kasner

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. — William Hazlitt

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I'm heaven's landscape painter. — Bauvard

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue. — Guy Deutscher

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — Shahzia Sikander

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals. — Vincent Van Gogh

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee ... and the poetics of his paintings. — Renzo Piano

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content. — Robert Motherwell

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

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart — Pablo Picasso

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame. — Gertrude Stein

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing. — Harley King

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. — Walter J. Phillips

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

I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be. — Julian Schnabel

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. — Pablo Picasso

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself. — Michele Cassou

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience. — Scott Avett

Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our medium. — C.M. Stunich

The substance of painting is light. — Andre Derain

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation. — Francisco Goya

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping. — Robert Breault

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something. — Gerhard Richter

Your expression dog paddles the entire
meeting but your daydream
ricochets between the prospect of quitting
and painting your room. — Lori Lamothe

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. — James Gray

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a
painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex. - 1946 — Henri Matisse

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background. — Lillian Bassman

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. — William Blake

All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting. — Piet Mondrian

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

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. — Joan Miro

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals. — PJ Harvey

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling. — Robert Motherwell

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book. — Mohsin Hamid

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet

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

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. — Ad Reinhardt

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

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. — Paul Kane

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole. — Ken Danby

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder — Pablo Picasso

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process. — Don Farrell

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon

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

T has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated. — Prince Charles

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting. — Adolph Gottlieb

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. — Jackson Pollock

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear. — David Luiz

She was like an outline of the painting of the Holy Virgin that an artist has sketched in black and white, but not yet filled with colour. — Karen Maitland

What has reason to do with the art of painting? — William Blake

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

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

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting. — Henri Matisse

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

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. — Paul Auster

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. — Pablo Picasso

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve. — Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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

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

I have a habit of painting reality with my dreams. — Lionel Suggs

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality. — Ben Shahn

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god. — Rembrandt

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

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail. — Mandy Patinkin

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies. — Pierre Soulages

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. — Blaise Pascal

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

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting. — David Salle

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation. — A.S. Byatt

My paintings are only the ashes of my art — Yves Klein

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. — Robert Henri

I think of painting as possessed by a structure ... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. — Paul Gauguin

The painting has a life of its own — Jackson Pollock

The real subject of every painting is light. — Claude Monet

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air — Jandy Nelson

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem De Kooning

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do. — Joe Bradley