Quotes of: Painting Keyword

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Robert Hughes

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Jonathan Winters

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

Rita Ora

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

Robert Plant

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

Robert Rauschenberg

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

A. S. Byatt

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Edvard Munch

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Matthew Prior

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

Rachel Bilson

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Mark Twain

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Jimi Hendrix

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

David Hockney

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

E. O. Wilson

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Balthus

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Janet Malcolm

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Maurice de Vlaminck

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

Bubba Sparxxx

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

Robert Rauschenberg

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Tony Curtis

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Edward Ruscha