Quotes About Painting

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.