Quotes of: Painting Keyword

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

John Milius

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Grace Slick

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Kelly Osbourne

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

Marie Windsor

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Russell Banks

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Bryan Singer

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

Cat Deeley

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

Eli Broad

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

John Dyer

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

Frank Stella

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Gustave Courbet

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Caspar David Friedrich

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

Chris Jordan

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

Harold Rosenberg

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

David Russell

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

Edward Hopper

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Bill Hicks

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

Brad Holland

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

H. R. Giger

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Howard Hodgkin