Top Painting Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Milena Canonero
The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by Bronzino than to go look at a Renaissance costume.
- Milena Canonero
Collection: Painting
Image of Squeak Carnwath
Painting is an investigation of being.
- Squeak Carnwath
Collection: Painting
Image of David Luiz
The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.
- David Luiz
Collection: Painting
Image of Alvin Langdon Coburn
I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.
- Alvin Langdon Coburn
Collection: Painting
Image of Rex Brandt
The painting is usually finished before you are.
- Rex Brandt
Collection: Painting
Image of Helen Frankenthaler
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
- Helen Frankenthaler
Collection: Painting
Image of Harvey Dunn
If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.
- Harvey Dunn
Collection: Painting
Image of Philip Guston
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.
- Philip Guston
Collection: Painting
Image of Amy Sillman
I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not.
- Amy Sillman
Collection: Painting
Image of Amy Sillman
It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.
- Amy Sillman
Collection: Painting
Image of Russell Hoban
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.
- Russell Hoban
Collection: Painting
Image of Ernst Haas
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
- Ernst Haas
Collection: Painting
Image of Douglas Lockwood
I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.
- Douglas Lockwood
Collection: Painting
Image of Joseph Raffael
Painting is the subject of painting.
- Joseph Raffael
Collection: Painting
Image of Joe Bradley
A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.
- Joe Bradley
Collection: Painting
Image of Wade Guyton
I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.
- Wade Guyton
Collection: Painting
Image of Michel Eugene Chevreul
For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.
- Michel Eugene Chevreul
Collection: Painting
Image of Helen Van Wyk
A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.
- Helen Van Wyk
Collection: Painting
Image of Jean Fautrier
Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.
- Jean Fautrier
Collection: Painting
Image of Mike Svob
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.
- Mike Svob
Collection: Painting
Image of Rita Ackermann
I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.
- Rita Ackermann
Collection: Painting
Image of Rita Ackermann
I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.
- Rita Ackermann
Collection: Painting
Image of Autumn de Forest
I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.
- Autumn de Forest
Collection: Painting
Image of Nir Hod
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
- Nir Hod
Collection: Painting
Image of Nigel Cooke
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.
- Nigel Cooke
Collection: Painting
Image of Domenico Gnoli
I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.
- Domenico Gnoli
Collection: Painting
Image of Philip Taaffe
I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.
- Philip Taaffe
Collection: Painting
Image of Irving Stone
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
- Irving Stone
Collection: Painting
Image of LeRoy Neiman
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.
- LeRoy Neiman
Collection: Painting
Image of Jackson Pollock
Painting is a state of being.
- Jackson Pollock
Collection: Painting
Image of Pablo Picasso
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
- Pablo Picasso
Collection: Painting
Image of Robert Rauschenberg
Basically painting is total idiocy.
- Robert Rauschenberg
Collection: Painting
Image of Edvard Munch
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
- Edvard Munch
Collection: Painting
Image of Bill Watterson
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
- Bill Watterson
Collection: Painting
Image of Andre Breton
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
- Andre Breton
Collection: Painting
Image of Bob Ross
Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.
- Bob Ross
Collection: Painting
Image of Al Pacino
I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.
- Al Pacino
Collection: Painting
Image of Irving Stone
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
- Irving Stone
Collection: Painting
Image of Blaise Pascal
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Painting
Image of Gerhard Richter
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.
- Gerhard Richter
Collection: Painting
Image of Alexander Pope
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Painting
Image of Blaise Pascal
Eloquence is the painting of thought.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Painting
Image of Georgia O'Keeffe
I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Collection: Painting
Image of Georgia O'Keeffe
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Collection: Painting
Image of Kanye West
I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.
- Kanye West
Collection: Painting
Image of William Blake
What has reasoning to do with painting?
- William Blake
Collection: Painting
Image of Horace
A poem is like a painting.
- Horace
Collection: Painting
Image of John Ruskin
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
- John Ruskin
Collection: Painting
Image of Jean Dubuffet
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
- Jean Dubuffet
Collection: Painting