Best Painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

“Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.”

“Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.”

Mean I Can Matter Speak Sound Painting Demand Creating Musician Singing Weight Instruments Deeper Colour Transparency Lighters

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.”

Wells Lines Possibility Painting Visible Gestures Dominant Floating Sculpture Spectrum Bass Arriving Conducting

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.”

Children Song Creative Cutting Painting Our Children Edges Our Family Cutting Edge

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”

People Thinking Looks Light Eye Turns Rooms Teach Talent College Color Painting Exercise Standing Shoulders Bunch Release Editors Canvas Brushes Slap Dip

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.”

Should Art Book Audience Pieces Painting Reader Expectations Working It Viewers Sculpture

Author:Max Kellerman

“I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.”

Ifs I Can Painting Toss

Author:Grimes

“It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.”

Needs Two Done Known Painting Concepts Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:Steve Martin

“It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness, this doesn't mean I believe there's no kindness in the real world. In fact, what it may mean is that I very much value kindness. Like if you make a painting in which only greens are allowed, it wouldn't mean you don't believe in blue.”

Ifs World Want Believe May Mean Real Facts Reality Jobs Values I Believe Fiction Kindness Painting Blue Don't Believe Real World Representatives Fictional Worlds

Author:George Saunders

“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.”

Art Stills Kids Culture Creation Painting Higher Singing Art Is Dancing Everyday Population Drawing Artistic Indian Dominant Percentages Indian Culture Dominant Culture

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing.”

Thinking Should Believe Made Feelings I Believe Too Much Painting Colour Conception Personal Feelings

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.”

Problem Universe Painting Masters Circles Brushes

Author:Mike Todd, Jr.

“Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.”

Real Helping Shows Pleasure Painting Aim Raises Intention Wide Colour Flattering

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

“The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.”

Light Painting Shapes Elements Harmony Theme Visuals Colour Repetition

Author:Mike Svob

“All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.”

Ideas Reality Painting Abstract Representation True Reality

Author:Mike Svob

“When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.”

Looks Artist Watches Novel Pieces Painting Composition Totality

Author:Mike Svob

“By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.”

Moving Painting Amount Areas Contrast Observers

Author:Mike Svob

“A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.”

Doe Happens Order Painting Elements Messages Importance Accidents

Author:Mike Svob

“Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.”

Language Particular Painting Symbols Viewers

Author:Mike Svob

“Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.”

Thinking Book Reason Interest Novel Painting Crisis Dare Centre Climax

Author:Mike Svob

“You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.”

Firsts Humans Eye Strong Understanding Views Painting Drama Scene First Time Reactions Behave Evoke Human Eyes

Author:Mike Svob

“Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.”

Should Greatness Painting

Author:Melissa Brown

“When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.”

Knows Way Shows Problem Waiting Painting Solutions Patience One Way Invites Muse Crops

Author:Carole Katchen

“We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.”

Way Want Needs Wells Easy Painting Tables Income Fats Extras Roof

Book:The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel

Source: The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel

“I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.”

Way Mean Would Be Able Acting Focus Painting Pressure Paint Painter Grades Splits Reluctant Sixth Grade

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.”

Humans Home Faces Form Class Environment Painting Models Landscape Portraits Human Form

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.”

Fantasy Painting Abstract Abstract Painting

Author:Lance Henriksen

“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”

Knows Reality Pain Suffering Turns Grief Know How Taught Painting Scene Experience Court Edges Mood Shallow Counterfeit

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.”

Joy Song Gone Virtue Blood Painting Masters Fine Cold Paint

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]”

Looks Fighting Painting Aloof

Author:George Herbert

“The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely”

States Painting Contemplating Halfway Arriving

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.”

Writing Wanted School Painting Band High School My Sister Pacifiers

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.”

Thinking Felt Space Air Special Painting Comfortable Built Studios Decent

Author:Peter Doig

“I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.”

Thinking Want Helping Painting Studios Painter

Author:Peter Doig

“It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?”

Perfect Interesting Painting Perfection

Author:Peter Doig

“It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.”

Thinking Stills Painting Take Me Elsewhere

Author:Peter Doig

“Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.”

Interesting Painting Timeless

Author:Peter Doig

“What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.”

Way Made Painting

Author:Peter Doig

“If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.”

People Ifs Trying Heart Bigs Natural My Own One Thing Painting Involved Easier Productions Work Out Studios Chrome

Author:Peter Doig

“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Film Moving Turns Sound Strange Painting Wind Unique Mouths Mood Layers Portraits Captured Mona Lisa Celluloid

Author:David Lynch

“That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.”

Years Firsts Art Courses Painting University Visuals Broads Sculpture Visual Art Lancaster

Author:Andy Serkis

“A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.”

Men Differences Tree Objects Painting Shadow Casts Fountain Sculpture

Author:Benvenuto Cellini

“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.”

People Way Writing Art Painting Pages Paint Finished Journal Autobiography

Author:Francoise Gilot

“People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.”

People Feels Painting Obvious

Author:Ralph Allen

“Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.”

Helping Stars Policy Painting Forgotten Shooting Occupation Adequate Profitable Shooting Star

Author:Ralph Allen

“Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.”

Children Teach Painting Lifetime Paint Miserable

Author:Christopher Willard

“What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?”

Thinking Difficult Brain Painting Difficulty Surgery Make You Think Brain Surgery

Author:Christopher Willard

“One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.”

Has Beens Whole Stage Painting Method Paint Strokes Finishing Unfinished Cezanne Completed Work

Author:Christopher Willard

“Without intent all painting is meaningless.”

Purpose Painting Meaningless

Author:Christopher Willard

“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Ifs Believe Art Artist Next I Believe Opinion Painting Pure Concerned Drawing Rejects Formal Criteria Departure Programmes

Author:Gunter Brus

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