Painting Quotes

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.