Painting Quotes

Painting is a hobby for me.

I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way to make a painting that encapsulates it.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

A man posing for a painting.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Sunlight is painting.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.