Famous Quotes & Sayings

Painting isn't his primary job, and, he's only been doing it for 19 months.

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

John French Sloan

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

Joan Miro

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

Joan Miro

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Eddie Cahill

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

Josef Albers

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

Jonathan Winters

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

Joni Mitchell

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Lucian Freud

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Norman Rockwell

I paint life as I would like it to be,

Henri Rousseau

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Edvard Munch

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

Edvard Munch

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.

Larry Davis

You never have to paint it, just get a hose.

Horace

A poem is like a painting.

Ernst Haas

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Henry Miller

Paint what you like and die happy

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Gerhard Richter

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

Gerhard Richter

My paintings are wiser than I am.

Gerhard Richter

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

Georges Braque

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