Painting Quotes
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God comes to us in theatre 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. (Quote by - Julie Harris)
Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes. (Quote by - William Mason)
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. (Quote by - Mrs. Anna Jameson)
I mix them with my brains, sir. (Quote by - John Opie)
From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
In spite of myself, I go on hoping. I hope with all my heart that there will be painting in heaven. (Quote by - Jean-baptiste Corot)
As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. (Quote by - Augustine Birrell)
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. (Quote by - Horace)
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. (Quote by - Jackson Pollock)
A picture is a poem without words. (Quote by - Confucius)
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. (Quote by - Nelson Goodman)
Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Painting is the effort to produce order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. (Quote by - Otto Dix)
A poem is like a painting. (Quote by - Horace)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself (Quote by - Truman Capote)
And when did you last see your father? (Quote by - W F Yeames)
And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Painting is very interesting. (Quote by - Sam Waterston)
Let's tell young people the best books are yet to written: the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. (Quote by - John Erskine)
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. (Quote by - Howard Stern)
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
Pictures must not be too picturesque. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. (Quote by - John Singer Sargent)
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast! (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. (Quote by - David Hockney)
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. (Quote by - Corita Kent)
He best can paint them who shall feel them most. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Paint me as I am, said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors." (Quote by - James Thomas Fields)
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. (Quote by - Brad Holland)
I have always loved drawing and painting and art was something I loved to do when younger (Quote by - Jerome Friedman)
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye (Quote by - Leonardo Da Vinci)
I only feel, but want the power to paint. (Quote by - Juvenal)
A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting. (Quote by - Ian Chappell)
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... (Quote by - Dawn French)
Painting is a form of profound creative release. (Quote by - Jan Van Eyck)
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. (Quote by - Edmond De Goncourt)
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. (Quote by - Oliver Cromwell)
If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. (Quote by - Giotto Di Bondone)
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What? (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)
The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. (Quote by - Jackson Pollock)
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. (Quote by - Jackson Pollock)
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. (Quote by - John Singer Sargent)
