Best 1313 quotes in «painting quotes» category

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my own it will inspire someone's next collection!

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

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?

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, 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 is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

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

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.