Painting Quotes

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

~ Ellie Kemper

I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.

~ Daniel Wu

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

~ Aimé Césaire

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

Every song is like a painting.

~ Dick Dale

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

~ Jonathan Davis

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

~ Ellsworth Kelly

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

~ Gustav Klimt

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.

~ Marcel Duchamp

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

~ Robert Smithson

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

~ Walter Gropius

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

~ Catherine Deneuve

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.

~ Amor Towles

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

~ Maurice De Vlaminck

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

~ Jackson Pollock

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

~ Jasper Johns

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

~ Marjane Satrapi

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

~ Jimmy Carter

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

~ Vincent Van Gogh

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

~ David Carson

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

All gardening is landscape painting.

~ William Kent

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

~ Lee Hall

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

~ Emma Tennant

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

~ Conor Oberst

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

~ Edgar Degas

My painting does not come from the easel.

~ Jackson Pollock

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

~ Giotto Di Bondone

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

~ Roy Lichtenstein

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

~ Pablo Picasso

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

~ Salvador Dalí

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

~ Hans Hofmann

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

~ Thomas Hoving

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

~ Georges Braque

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

~ Pierre Bonnard

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

~ James Frey

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

~ Tom Stoppard

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

~ Gustave Courbet

Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

~ Robert Delaunay

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

~ Shailene Woodley