Quotes of: Painting Keyword

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Paul Cezanne

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Patton Oswalt

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Paul Simonon

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Tom Stoppard

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

By Way of Accident

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

Ellsworth Kelly

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Otto Dix

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Philip Guston

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Peter Max

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

Pablo Picasso

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Ralph Allen

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

Richard Armitage

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Richard Avedon

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

Robyn Hitchcock

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Thomas Couture

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'

Thomas Kinkade

I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

Kate Upton

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti