Painting Quotes
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The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
Tracy Chevalier
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
Damien Hirst
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A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
Freya Stark
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I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul Cezanne
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I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.
Vincent Van Gogh
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'Departure' also the title of a famous triptych painting of Max Beckmann, yes departure from the illusion of life toward the essential things that wait behind appearance.. .We must insist that Departure is not bound to a political trend, but is symbolic for all times.
Max Beckmann
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What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change...
Arthur Dove
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I try to vote as left as I can. I hope that my paintings will coincide and be far left, but frequently... the painting rebels and goes fascist on me.
Peter Saul
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Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?
Gene Logsdon
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A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than words.
William Shakespeare
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The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
Daniel B. Shapiro
