Quotes of: Painting Keyword

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

Humans tend to cling on to a picture that was painted in front of their eyes, instead of opening up their mind to the painting that was already there...

Lionel Suggs

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

John Dyer

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Edvard Munch

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

Don Van Vliet

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

George Edward Moore

Walter Fane: It was silly of us to look for qualities in each other that we never had.

The Painted Veil

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think, 'oh, I love this picture because it's universal.' 'I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.' That's not the reason anyone l...

The Goldfinch

I asked Geertrui the other day what she thought love is-real love, true love. She said that for her real love is observing another person and being observed by another person with complete attention. If she's right, you only have to look at the pictu...

Aidan Chambers

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Robert Indiana

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Robert Motherwell

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

Salman Rushdie

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

Steven Wright

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

How to Paint a Dead Man

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29

Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?

The Painting of Porcupine City

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

The Painted Veil

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

Steve Guttenberg

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

Shea Hembrey

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Jonathan Winters