Painting Quotes

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

~ Pablo Picasso

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

~ Winston Churchill

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

~ Jean Baptiste Corot

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

~ Pablo Picasso

Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

~ Ambrose Bierce

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

~ James Mcneill Whistler

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

~ Pablo Picasso

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

~ Milton Avery

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

~ John White

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

~ Georges Rouault

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

~ William Hazlitt

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

~ Grandma Moses

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

~ Salvador Dalí

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

~ Marc Chagall

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

~ John Ruskin

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

~ Pablo Picasso

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

~ Peter Paul Rubens

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

~ Auguste Renoir

Some day they will know what I mean.

~ Tom Thomson

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

~ John Ciardi

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.

~ Ivan Eyre

In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.

~ Theresa Sjoquist

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

~ David Lynch

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

~ Rafael Moneo

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

~ Marcel Duchamp

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.

~ Richard Phillips

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

~ Henry Rollins

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

~ Blaise Pascal

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

~ Frank Stella

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

~ Chuck Close

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

~ Berkeley Breathed

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

~ David Lynch

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

~ Imelda May

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

~ Robert Delaunay

Sunlight is painting.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

~ Edward Hopper

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

~ John Constable