Home / Topics / Painting Quotes

Painting Quotes

Browse 4325 quotes about Painting.

Painting Quotes

“There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.”

Thinking Mean Humanity Nice Alive Painting Exciting Extensions Distillation

Author:Will Cotton

“There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.”

Want Should Humans Form Humanity Progress Painting Spite Human Form

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.”

Humanity Literature Attitude Painting Drawing Painting And Drawing

Author:Rafael Moneo

“The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.”

Source: The Renaissance

“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.”

Way Play Beautiful Humanity Wonderful Painting Theater Communicate Theatre Ballet Orchestra Symphony Symphony Orchestras Beautiful Paintings

Author:Julie Harris

“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.”

“What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came from. I can't accept the fact that the concept of art as our concept of humanity is expanding.”

Art I Can Facts Humanity Accepting Painting Art Is Concepts Size Expanding Conceptual Art

Author:Lawrence Weiner