Painting Quotes
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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.
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.
One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.
In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.
He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.
Everything is art and it's part of the painting. (To talk with somebody it's art, to understand a language is art, to understand a book is art, to understand somebody is art...)
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.
Listen to the sunset...see its pretty hue... When you see it, think of me...and I'll think of you...
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
They make me...they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don't know, like weighted down, but then these patches...
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.
Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.
If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.
