Painting Quotes

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

[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.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.

I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.