Painting Quotes

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

All my album artwork is body painting.

Painting completed my life.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

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

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

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

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.