Painting Quotes
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It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.
Mordicai Gerstein -
Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.
Chris Gardner
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At that childhood time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.
Warren MacKenzie -
And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
Paul Gauguin -
There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by Laszló Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we with Alix MacKenzie didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.
Warren MacKenzie -
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.
Erica Jong -
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
Herbert Spencer -
I’ve been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who’s inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I’ve had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes – mountains and water and flowers and birds.
Renee O'Connor
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Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.
Ben Eine -
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
Sara Sheridan -
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Richard Phillips -
You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.
Elvis Costello -
Painting is a hobby for me.
Renee O'Connor -
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!
Paul Gauguin
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
Seneca the Younger -
I am in a thousand pieces. Painting somehow makes me whole.
Bram van Velde -
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
William C. Wright -
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
Seth Godin -
Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
Thomas Kinkade -
I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
Bram van Velde
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There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.
Bram van Velde -
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
Paul Gauguin -
I see the possibilities of a new kind of painting. With free surfaces, the goal I was always steering towards.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton