Best 1313 quotes in «painting quotes» category

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

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

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

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.

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.

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

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

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

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Painting completed my life.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

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.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.