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Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. Votes: 3
Pramoedya Ananta ToerPainting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Votes: 3
Robert SmithsonPainting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. Votes: 3
Leon Battista AlbertiPainting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting. Votes: 3
Adolph GottliebPainting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. Votes: 3
Dianna AgronPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. Votes: 3
Paul CezannePainting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. Votes: 3
Francis BaconPainting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting. Votes: 3
Andrew McDermottPainting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. Votes: 3
Pierre LotiPainting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting. Votes: 3
Peter GreenawayPainting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting. Votes: 3
Jackson PollockPainting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey. Votes: 3
Winston ChurchillPainting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. Votes: 3
Henry MoorePainting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. Votes: 3
Philip GustonPainting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. Votes: 3
J. M. W. TurnerPainting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. Votes: 3
George GroszPainting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable. Votes: 3
William McGregor PaxtonPainting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. Votes: 3
Philip GustonPainting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives. Votes: 3
Pierre SoulagesPainting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. Votes: 3
BalthusPainting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. Votes: 3
Philip GustonPainting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it. Votes: 3
Michele CassouPainting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment. Votes: 3
Sylvester StallonePainting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. Votes: 3
Robert RauschenbergPainting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. Votes: 2
Paul CezannePainting and illustration cannot be mixed"one cannot merge from one into the other. Votes: 2
N. C. WyethEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Votes: 2
Oscar WildeMy paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. Votes: 2
Agnes MartinGood painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. Votes: 1
Maurice de VlaminckDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. Votes: 1
E. O. WilsonWhat makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery? Votes: 0
Christopher WillardI love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonMost of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. Votes: 0
Robert GennIntuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. Votes: 0
David LynchI think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. Votes: 0
Jasper JohnsOn painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.] Votes: 0
George HerbertSculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonAn abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. Votes: 0
Marcel DuchampMonet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting. Votes: 0
Henri de Toulouse-LautrecIn painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. Votes: 0
Robert GennThe most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue Votes: 0
Romare BeardenSometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting. Votes: 0
Mary Beth McKenzieIn painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. Votes: 0
John RuskinWriting must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. Votes: 0
Anjelica HustonIn the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. Votes: 0
Shahzia SikanderIf you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciAlmost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting. Votes: 0
Graham SutherlandThis place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting. Votes: 0
Teresa FlavinWhen everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIdeally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. Votes: 0
John BaldessariThe best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. Votes: 0
Peter GreenawayA little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonThere are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color. Votes: 0
Larry PoonsI just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. Votes: 0
Pierre-Auguste RenoirA painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist. Votes: 0
Harold RosenbergObjective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. Votes: 0
Georgia O'KeeffeI've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. Votes: 0
Mary QuantMy hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art. Votes: 0
Chantal SutherlandI've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. Votes: 0
Pierre-Auguste RenoirFor the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others. Votes: 0
Michel Eugene ChevreulI gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. Votes: 0
Damien HirstEvery painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember. Votes: 0
Siri HustvedtI can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either. Votes: 0
Donald O'ConnorShould it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture? Votes: 0
Beatrix FarrandJust as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story. Votes: 0
Guido MolinariI see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. Votes: 0
Julian SchnabelIf more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawIt's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting. Votes: 0
Pierre BonnardIf more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThe back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief. Votes: 0
B.K.S. IyengarI wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. Votes: 0
Giorgio ArmaniI often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make. Votes: 0
Gerhard RichterThe reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. Votes: 0
Mark RothkoVan Gogh wouldâve sold more than one painting if heâd put tigers in them. Votes: 0
Bill WattersonMaking a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out. Votes: 0
Julian SchnabelWhen I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. Votes: 0
Francis BaconI dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. Votes: 0
Andrew WyethThere is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events. Votes: 0
Ram DassThe big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it. Votes: 0
Ronald SukenickYou're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react. Votes: 0
Greil MarcusI am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that. Votes: 0
Alex FergusonThink of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. Votes: 0
Jerry SaltzPerspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciWhen I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. Votes: 0
Howard HodgkinI always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghI didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius Votes: 0
Grace HartiganI've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. Votes: 0
Julian SchnabelNothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. Votes: 0
Claude MonetI like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around. Votes: 0
Joseph RaffaelSurely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. Votes: 0
Edmond de GoncourtI believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. Votes: 0
Max BeckmannI make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner. Votes: 0
Billy ChildishA Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting. Votes: 0
Ian ChappellI think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. Votes: 0
Robert RauschenbergIf you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all. Votes: 0
James RosenquistI see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well. Votes: 0
Georgia O'KeeffeTo love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. Votes: 0
Andre MalrauxGod is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting... Votes: 0
Steven Curtis ChapmanI think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. Votes: 0
Willem de KooningI love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time. Votes: 0
Jessalyn GilsigI don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet. Votes: 0
Carolina HerreraI enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly. Votes: 0
Anthony HopkinsIf you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro. Votes: 0
Ernst GombrichWhat is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?
Leon Battista AlbertiI don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
Peter GreenawayIdeas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.
Vincent Van Goghand if I have any advice to give to anybody itâs this: take up watercolor painting.
Charles BukowskiWhatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
Georges BraqueIf painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.
Pierre SoulagesEvery great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.
Robert BreaultIf light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.
Robert ReynoldsThe artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
Seneca the YoungerNow will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
Swami SatchidanandaEvery new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.
Edouard ManetSo many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
Edward HopperThe act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
Francisco GoyaI have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
Gustave CourbetA painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.
Kazuaki TanahashiThat should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.
Kehinde WileyNo, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.
Marcel DuchampPainting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
Babatunde AdebimpeThe latest fashion⦠is absolutely necessary for a painting. Itâs what matters most.
Edouard ManetI am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
Georgia O'KeeffeWhoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
Henri MatisseIn painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.
Honore de BalzacPainting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.
Mary HeilmannThe most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
Michael LeunigIt's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.
Pierre SoulagesI never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.
Robert MotherwellI've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.
Dennis HopperWe look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.
James WhistlerThe moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.
N.D. WilsonMy nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
Paul CezanneIt's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
Francis Bacon... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
George EliotPainting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.
Leonora CarringtonA novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
Mary Russell MitfordPainting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.
Pierre BonnardPhotography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Pierre-Auguste RenoirI think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert IndianaA painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.
Ted GodwinIn mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
Thomas EakinsPhotography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
Edward WestonPainting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.
Jean FautrierWe amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.
Joseph PlaskettPainting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Philip Gilbert HamertonIn painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.
Scott AvettI might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
Willem de KooningLaying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
William WordsworthWriting is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
Georges BraqueThere is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
Heinrich HeineEven with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
Jean-Luc GodardIn painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.
Ken DanbyYou can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.
Lawrence WeinerA color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.
Ludwig WittgensteinEnough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
Pablo PicassoI have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.
Scott AvettIf art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
Walter Darby BannardAll painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
David HockneyDon't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningI really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.
John LithgowAn artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
Pablo PicassoFor me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
Pablo PicassoIn painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
Paul GauguinThe purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
Pierre-Auguste RenoirThere is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
Umberto BoccioniThere's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all
Zooey DeschanelDo not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.
Charles Webster HawthorneIt is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
Edvard MunchAn object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
Georg BaselitzStyle in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
James EllisPainting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
Jamie WyethI'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.
Janet EvanovichThe older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.
Joseph RaffaelI wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.
Marcel DzamaThere are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
Pierre-Auguste RenoirMost artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.
Teddy ThompsonWhat lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
Vincent Van GoghMy still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
William C. WrightPainting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.
Joan MiroWe look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.
Mark TobeyPainting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.
Steven WhitneyA painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Elaine de KooningPhotography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.
John GossageHow painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
Leonardo da VinciWhen I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
Pierre-Auguste RenoirI firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.
Robert ReynoldsExperience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
Walter Darby BannardStart a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
Walter Darby BannardEvery year Steve Kaufman supports the charity "Love Ride" by donating a painting to this cause.
Jay LenoTry drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.
Kevin HenkesThe activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
Mervyn LevyMy problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.
Robert GoberThe reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.
Semir ZekiIt's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.
SpaceGhostPurrpWhen you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Walter Darby BannardPhotography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.
Charles SheelerI build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
Chuck CloseGlory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
Eugene DelacroixThe final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?
Franz KlineThe painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan MiroI have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.
Kehinde WileyThe most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Mark RothkoPainting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.
Peter Paul RubensThe Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.
Sara GennOne of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.
Scott AvettYou're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.
Toni OnleyUnder his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
Andre BretonPainting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
Barnett NewmanPainting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
Francesco ClementeWhen people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
Georgia O'KeeffeSomehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
Grace HartiganPainting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.
John ConstableThe majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
John DyerI was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.
Leanna Renee HieberI paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
Neil WelliverIt's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
Peter DoigYou usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.
Alex KatzI affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.
Alvin Langdon CoburnA painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
Caspar David FriedrichPainting does what we cannot doâit brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck JonesYou can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.
Damien HirstIn painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.
David BellosWhen I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.
Matt SmithI started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
Muhammad AliContent is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.
Rene HuygheWith every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah WinfreyMake a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.
Alex KatzI know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.
Domenico Gnoli