Quotes of: Painting Keyword

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

Cy Twombly

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

Henri Matisse

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing...

Hiroko Sakai

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

John Clayton

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

David Ogilvy

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Diego Rivera

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

Ellsworth Kelly

Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.

Bill McKibben

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

Bob Ross

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

Brenda Sutton Rose

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

Charles Baudelaire

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Grandma Moses

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Grandma Moses

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Georgia O'Keeffe

We all have the same pallet of emotional paints. It is how we pigment them on the canvas of life that dictates our artistry.

Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

Gerhard Richter

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

Galina Vishnevskaya