Painting Quotes
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For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.
Neo Rauch -
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
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I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.
Etty Hillesum -
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
Ray Bradbury -
But London didn’t care, she never does when you leave her because she knows for every one that leaves another two arrive. Besides, she was too busy painting on her neon lipstick and dolling herself up in red and gold.
Ben Aaronovitch -
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.
Danny Fox -
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
Michael Leunig
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Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.
Warren MacKenzie -
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 -
We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.
Sarah Dessen -
Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.
Bram van Velde -
Painting doesn't interest me.. .What I paint is beyond painting.
Bram van Velde
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I see possibilities for a whole new way of painting, in which planes are used more freely. Weaving and embroidery make this possible.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
Will Ferrell -
Painting is being alive. Through my painting, I beat back this world that stops us living and where we are in constant danger of being destroyed.. .No, you have to know when to keep silent.
Bram van Velde -
The real horror is mass production. Painting when there is no compulsion to do so… …Pictures like that are all unpunished crimes.
Bram van Velde -
I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a simple way to hopefully spread a little joy.
Emma Green Tregaro -
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
Paul Gauguin