P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Painters used red like spice”
Source: Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93
“Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.”
“Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.”
“Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.”
Source: The Writing Life
“Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.”
“Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works
“Paintin they own pictures then they crop me in But I will remain where the top begins”
“Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.”
“Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.”
“Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.”
Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from
“Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.”
“Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.”
“Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.”
“Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.”
“Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.”
“Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.”
“Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.”
“Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.”
“Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.”
“Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.”
Source: Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles
“Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.”
“Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Painting and writing are solitary arts.”
“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.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.”
“Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.”
“Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.”
“Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.”
“Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.”
“Painting can feign reality without having seen it.”
“Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.”
“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”
“Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.”
Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157)”
Source: The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas
“Painting completed my life.”
Source: Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'
“Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.”
Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950
“Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.”
“Painting demands an intelligent model.”
“Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.”
Source: Blue Dog Man
“Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.”
Source: In Monet's light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny
“Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.”
“Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.”
“Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.”
“Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.”
“Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.”
“Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.”
“Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.”
“Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.”
“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”
Source: Notebooks
“Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.”