Quotes About Painting

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.