623 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting. Peter Wright

School Painting Dirty Never Subscribed

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before. Peter Wright

Life Best Class People Thought Made Before Painting Back Enrolled Way Drawing Best Way Never Had Soon Felt Am Still Surprised Discovered Subjects Very Get Interesting Start Need

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. Peter Wright

Art Seen Picture Own Painting Object Something Making Stand

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? Peter Wright

Me Painting Marks Outcome Point Colour Never Knew Like Know Look Making Subject Improvisation Front Going Much Flooding Start

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air. Pharrell Williams

Feeling Painting Air Sort Playing

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. Philip Guston

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. Philip Guston

Art Painting Kind Some Miracle Seems Like Again Need Peculiar

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. Philip Guston

You Painting State Inspired Puts Like Look Any Gong

I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for the painters that were painting the house. Phillipa Soo

Day Coffee Painting One Day Franklin Table Aretha Aretha Franklin Songs Put House Sing Were Jump Decided Painters Coffee Table

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. Pierre Loti

Music Painting Only Faithfully Were Worked Things

All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting. Piet Mondrian

Thought Painting Dissolved Individual Form Means Plastic Universal

I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them. Rachael Stirling

Work Great You Woman Yourself Writing Mirror Big Painting All Things Had Written Pictures Look Fell Pieces She Read Celebrating Loved Quotations Them Flesh Things

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. Ralph Allen

Good Will Painting Stars Adequate Rapidly More Individualist Policy Occupation Without Always Cultural Shooting Stop Forgotten Help Who Profitable

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well. Ranveer Brar

Painting Would Well Chef Been Maybe Interest Painter

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. Rebecca Miller

With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway. Richard Diebenkorn

Rare Painting Think Respond Following Touch Rather Exceptions He Simply Feel Most Than Get Artist Grain Anyway Cut Cuts Really Across Right Here Flow

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting. Richard MacDonald

Will Painting Longer Lot Than Sculpture Last

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics. Richard MacDonald

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency. Richard Phillips

War World Painting Civil Civil Disobedience About Could Idea New Insurgency Exhibition Cultural Revolt Authority Want After Much Act Disobedience Belief Challenging World War World War I Museum Museums

Painting is a coalescing of experience. Richard Phillips

Experience Painting

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. Richard Pousette-Dart

Life Me Balance Painting Solid Mysterious Real Transcending Dynamic Wholeness

When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film. Rick Ross

Music Mind Picture Painting Seeing Records Like Make Talking Film

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