Painting Quotes

The real subject of every painting is light.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

Painting is a strange business.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

One never paints violently enough.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.

The painting has a life of its own

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it. You have your peers of about 10 guys who know you are the one painting.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.