Painting Quotes

• When you are working, you are so far away and so absorbed, it's inevitable that you fall into a vacuum when you stop.. ..every time when I finish a painting, I always have to wait to get my strength back before I can begin another.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Working
  • Vacuum
  • Absorbed

• I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good things.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Fall

• Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Family
  • Photography
  • Chores

• I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • Work
  • Done
  • Appreciation

• Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Ideas
  • Abundance
  • Locomotives

• I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Christ
  • Exchange
  • Snapshot

• Some people would ask: 'You are not the one who does the painting, or shot the work, how can it be your work?' But I was the one who chose which site we should use, and which assistant helps me to do the painting, or the shot.

  

  Liu Bolin
  • People
  • Work
  • Painting

• I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

  

  John Kricfalusi
  • Bad
  • Style
  • Purpose

• I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not translate into decoration on pottery. I thought it was going to, and in fact I made, while still in school, a plate with one of my paintings on it, and that's exactly what it was, it was a plate with a painting on it. It was not a decorated plate; it was just a painting superimposed over a three-dimensional ceramic form.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • School
  • Able
  • Translate

• When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Painting
  • Time To Think

• I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • Action
  • Painting

• The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Painting
  • Understand
  • Best Way

• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Harmony

• We believe that we can find the end, and that a painting can be finished. The Abstract Expressionists always felt the painting's being finished was very problematical. We'd more readily say that our paintings were finished and say, well, it's either a failure or it's not, instead of saying, well, maybe it's not really finished.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Believe
  • Failure
  • Painting

• The arts in every field - music, drama, sculpture, painting - we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Work
  • Music
  • Drama

• For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Time
  • Done
  • Experience

• I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Time
  • Painting

• Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.

  

  Billy Cannon
  • Stories
  • Emerge
  • The End

• I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.

  

  David Hockney
  • Magic
  • Theatre
  • Sunglasses

• Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Painting

• The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism. (p. 233)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Painting

• To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Pilgrimage

• Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Present
  • Painting

• The author Goya is convinced that it is as proper for painting to criticize human error and vice as for poetry and prose to do so, although criticism is usually taken to be exclusively the business of literature.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Business
  • Taken
  • Poetry

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