Painting Quotes

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

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.

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

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

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

People used to give me pictures or paintings of me - they never look even close to what I look like.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

My paintings are rubbish.

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.