Painting Quotes

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

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.

I want to create, not kill.

Life is like a painting, seems smooth and glorious but you can see its dullness when you are near it.

You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.

Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.

They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets

Listen to the sunset...see its pretty hue... When you see it, think of me...and I'll think of you...

In my heaven sweet melodies of the skies ripple pool of the sea playing sweet song to me, sharing tales of the past, blending with mine as mirage, painting new...I breathe in, am in love and alive...

To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead.

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.

... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.

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 could either succumb to the nightmares I’ve raised or paint them.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed.

Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain

We make our own music. We paint our own future.

Creativity is the most supreme form of love. When it flows from any heart flooded by truth and light, it can change all those who encounter its seductive vibrations.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.

Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Lets build a happy little cloud.Lets build some happy little trees.

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

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

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.

She was all about the present. Paint and blood and lust. The now.

Why do you paint, Nona?"...'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

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.

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.

in the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred