Painting Quotes

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

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.

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

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

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.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

Painting completed my life.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

I want painting to be my flashlight.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.