Best 1313 quotes in «painting quotes» category

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

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

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.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

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?

[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, 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.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

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

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.