Painting Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Painting
Painting Quotes & Sayings
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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 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.
— Jasper Johns
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
Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.
— Milton Avery
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
...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
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
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
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
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
— Salvador Dali
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
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
