Painting Quotes

• The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Body
  • Painting
  • Relief

• By way of news, I can tell you that Couture, that bad-tempered fellow, has completely given up painting. It's no great pity; in this exhibition, he had some really bad paintings.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Great
  • Bad

• I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

  

  Morris Graves
  • Painting
  • Contribution
  • Convictions

• Of all arts, painting indisputably requires the greatest victim.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Painting
  • Victim
  • Requires

• Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Art
  • Moments
  • Performing

• My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Painting
  • Primary
  • Palette

• I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Soul
  • Imagination
  • Express

• The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment

  

  Edouard Vuillard
  • Painting
  • Moment
  • Techniques

• The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

  

  John Hurt
  • Job
  • Painting
  • Discipline

• I am most anxious to get into my London painting-room, for I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. I have done a good deal of skying for I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that among the rest.

  

  John Constable
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

  

  Yanni
  • Emotional
  • Color
  • Sound

• Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Picasso loved depicting. He didn't love painting. It's always more like filling in for Picasso. But you can see that Matisse loved the stuff. He loved making it thin, loved moving it around.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Moving
  • Painting

• I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Freedom
  • Painting
  • Sculpting

• When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

  

  Peter Max
  • Painting

• Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Humans

• If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Stop
  • Painting
  • Flower

• Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Painting
  • Bigs

• My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

  

  Keith Crown
  • Together
  • Problem
  • Recognition

• Just to paint a representation or design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you punt on canvas the more you lose control of the thought. I’ve never been able to paint what I set out to paint.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Control
  • Design
  • Canvas

• Painting, I think it's like jazz.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Painting

• I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Wall

• I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

  

  Henry Flynt
  • Students
  • Harvard
  • Expressionism

• Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.

  

  Anthony Caro
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Taken

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