1.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
Miles Davis
A canvas is an aural portrait and sound is a visual symphony.
2.
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.
Sonia Delaunay
"To me, my painting and what is generally labelled 'decorative' work are inextricably linked. I have never found the 'minor arts' to be creatively stifling; if anything, it has been a broadening of my artistic horizons."
3.
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Mark Rothko
The most alluring artwork is one that communicates more of what one feels than of what one perceives.
4.
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.
Mark Rothko
A painting is not an image of a moment, but is the moment.
5.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan Miro
7.
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
Francisco Goya
8.
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
E. O. Wilson
9.
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
10.
Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
Claude Monet
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My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.
James Turrell
12.
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
Jackson Pollock
13.
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
Claude Monet
14.
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
Joan Miro
15.
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
Rainn Wilson
16.
I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.
Claude Monet
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
18.
I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ...
I am painting big sunflowers.
Vincent Van Gogh
19.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
Caspar David Friedrich
20.
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
Fernando Botero
21.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
Keith Haring
22.
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.
Samuel Morse
23.
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
John French Sloan
24.
Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.
Horace Pippin
25.
Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.
Victor Vasarely
26.
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
Dawn French
27.
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
Chuck Close
28.
Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.
Rembrandt
30.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
31.
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
Joan Miro
32.
I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.
Janet Fish
33.
Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
Wale
34.
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
Swami Satchidananda
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Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.
Willem de Kooning
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
Michelangelo
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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston
38.
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
Lindsey Buckingham
40.
Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
Henri Matisse
41.
I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.
Fred Durst
42.
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
Siri Hustvedt
43.
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.
Marc Chagall
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I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
William Hogarth
45.
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
Maurice de Vlaminck
46.
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
Steven Bochco
47.
I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.
Kirsty Gallacher
48.
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.
Franz Kline
49.
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Rembrandt
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Claude Monet