Painting Quotes

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Sunlight is painting.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

If you remove these lines in the painting, the colors are no longer effective.

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Modern French painting is all right; it has produced many beautiful and interesting things, fully worthy of admiration, but it has also set up response habits among our artistic authorities which have worked against a free approach to other artistic forms.

I was painting a lot after the war, influenced by automatic gestures and Pollock. But I knew there were better painters out there.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly . . . . If their painting doesn't improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldn't do anything!

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

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.

Everybody wants to create something, whether it's a painting or a poem or a body of work on stage.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though I'm not good at painting, either.

As I get older my husband asks me why I don't give up painting, but I can't. If I'm not in the hospital, I'm here. It just means a lot to me.

We do full face painting and balloon sculpturing. I think we're even going to start doing baby showers where the stork shows up with gifts.

Do not go overboard and get trapped into a situation that can be use by elements bent on painting an image of Indonesia's Islam as an intolerant, rigid and anarchic society.

Do not go overboard and get trapped into a situation that can be used by elements bent on painting an image of Indonesia's Islam as an intolerant, rigid and anarchic society.

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

No one asked an artist who was great in his 20s and 30s why he was still painting in his 40s and 50s.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.