Painting Quotes

• To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Artist

• The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Art
  • Painting

• There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Words

• ..paint was always in history of painting a means to an end, whether the end was religious, social, decorative or romantic. Now it's become an end in itself..

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • History
  • Religious
  • Romantic

• I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Long
  • Painting

• It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

  

  Peter Doig
  • Painting

• Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • People
  • Painting

• We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non-representational painting.

  

  Adolph Gottlieb
  • Painting

• 'I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's a clever anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.'

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Clever

• Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Painting

• We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• Dear Does = Theo van Doesburg , thank you for your letter.. .I was glad to know that in principle you are in favour of the diamond hanging Mondrian's painting, he made in 1919, hanging in a rhombus and I think that in practice you will approve of this method for some of my things. You look at the thing painting itself, and not only the outward appearance..

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Practice
  • Painting
  • Diamond

• Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Painting

• We didn't know when to stop. It was like painting. We got it to its peak and then we thought, we've got more time, so we started throwing more paint on there.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Painting

• 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

• ...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • May
  • True
  • Horse

• It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Relaxation

• I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

  

  Banksy
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Wife
  • Rose
  • Aversion

• The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

  

  Ellar Coltrane
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

  

  John Guare
  • People
  • Art
  • Value

• My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

  

  Chantal Sutherland
  • Art
  • Reading
  • Horse

• I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.

  

  John Rocco
  • Painting
  • River

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