Painting Quotes

• Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Progress
  • Painting
  • Continuation

• Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Dance

• I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Picture

• My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.

  

  Deborah Kass
  • Work
  • War
  • History

• Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Painting
  • Glory
  • Enthusiasm

• 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

• We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • Why
  • Painting

• If a painting has a soulful effect on the viewer, if it puts his mind into a soulful mood, then it has fulfilled the first requirement of a work of art. However bad it might be in drawing, color, handling, etc.

  

  Caspar David Friedrich
  • Art
  • Fulfilled
  • Requirement

• Eloquence is the painting of thought.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Painting
  • Eloquence

• Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

  

  Peter Doig
  • Interesting
  • Painting

• I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

  

  Alexis Denisof
  • Community
  • College
  • Kitchen

• It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Nature
  • Discover
  • Louvre

• Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Wonder
  • Painting

• I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils.. ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Wish
  • Painting

• Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • Humans
  • Existence
  • Essence

• People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Country
  • Military

• I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

  

  Joshua Prince-Ramus
  • Painting
  • Creative
  • Constraint

• I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Design
  • Color
  • Painting

• ...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

• I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Painting

• Value differences in painting always cut in; color differences always go side by side. Laterally. Color differences can illustrate three dimensional form, but using color in terms of hue belongs more properly to painting than modelling with dark and light as in sculpting does.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Light
  • Value
  • Dark

• A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Painting
  • Image
  • Verb

• Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

  

  Lynn Shelton
  • Music
  • Painting

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