Top Painting Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Rosanne Cash
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.
- Rosanne Cash
Collection: Painting
Image of Walter J. Phillips
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.
- Walter J. Phillips
Collection: Painting
Image of Walter J. Phillips
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.
- Walter J. Phillips
Collection: Painting
Image of Albert Camus
It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Painting
Image of Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Collection: Painting
Image of Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Collection: Painting
Image of Igor Babailov
It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.
- Igor Babailov
Collection: Painting
Image of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Collection: Painting
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Painting
Image of Vincent Van Gogh
Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Collection: Painting
Image of Vincent Van Gogh
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Collection: Painting
Image of Robert Henri
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
- Robert Henri
Collection: Painting
Image of Damien Hirst
The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
- Damien Hirst
Collection: Painting
Image of Ernest Hemingway
There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
- Ernest Hemingway
Collection: Painting
Image of Kehinde Wiley
I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.
- Kehinde Wiley
Collection: Painting
Image of Paul Auster
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
- Paul Auster
Collection: Painting
Image of Anthony Hopkins
I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.
- Anthony Hopkins
Collection: Painting
Image of Kehinde Wiley
In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.
- Kehinde Wiley
Collection: Painting
Image of Milton Resnick
I painted myself out of my painting.
- Milton Resnick
Collection: Painting
Image of David Hockney
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.
- David Hockney
Collection: Painting
Image of Philip Guston
More than a process, painting is being possessed.
- Philip Guston
Collection: Painting
Image of Philip Guston
I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.
- Philip Guston
Collection: Painting
Image of Philip Guston
What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.
- Philip Guston
Collection: Painting
Image of Francis Bacon
Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Painting
Image of Francis Bacon
We only have our nervous system to paint.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Painting
Image of Francis Bacon
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Painting
Image of Roy Lichtenstein
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
- Roy Lichtenstein
Collection: Painting
Image of Honore de Balzac
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Painting
Image of Yves Saint Laurent
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
- Yves Saint Laurent
Collection: Painting
Image of Steve Martin
It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
- Steve Martin
Collection: Painting