Painting Quotes

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.

I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

What has reasoning to do with painting?

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

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.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

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.

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well keep it stronger.

We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.

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.