Best painting & remember Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.”

Light Remember Enemy Position Painting Accounts Colour Gray

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.”

Remember Next Painting One Day Bunch Bowls Imitation Next Day Grapes Juan

Book:My life in sculpture

Source: My life in sculpture

“When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Made Feelings Remember Process Painting

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.”

Years Looks Remember Certain Music Painting Months Music Is Execution

Author:Robert Genn

“If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.”

People Ifs Enough Remember Asks Emotional Painting Elements Photograph Shakes Description Accurate Viewers Intertwined

Author:Luc Tuymans

“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.”

Way Doe Helping Body Beautiful Remember Cities Painting Eating Drawing Best Way Flavor Penetrate Beautiful City Beautiful Paintings

Author:Anais Nin

“I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.”

World Real Shows Remember Seeing Painting Portraits Abstraction

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe

“Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.”

Art Remember Found Secret Greater Painting Quiet Aim Excellence Various Chosen Fewer Eloquence Singleness

Book:Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

Source: Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.”

Thinking Made Character Remember Artist Rocks Fashion Style Painting Personality Becoming Band Draws Accidents Drawing Designer Rock N Roll Fashion Designer

Author:Ashley Purdy

“Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."”

Thinking Looks I Can Sometimes Shows Dream Remember Can Do Realizing Morning Saws Painting Wake Up

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.”

“I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.”

Thinking Wells Said Stills Seems Remember Interesting Painting Photography They Said Gave Up

Author:David Hockney

“My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.”

Art I Can School Remember Painting Mom High School My Mom Drawing Traditional Painter Gaps Graffiti Drawing And Painting

Author:Alec Monopoly

“I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."”

Should Art Said Ideas Remember Artist Wish Forever Painting Should Have Iranian Exhibitions

Author:Farah Diba

“Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.”

Art Shows Remember Next Taken Seeing Painting Transformed The Next One Matisse

Author:Anthony Caro

“I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.”

Thinking Book School Remember Fronts Painting High School Genuine Sculpture

Author:Joe Bradley

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