621 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. Jean de la Bruyere

Music Painting Mediocrity Poetry Endured Which Public Certain Certain Things Speaking Public Speaking Things

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Pablo Picasso

Best Painting Make Comment Sculpture Painter

A painting that is well composed is half finished. Pierre Bonnard

Art Finished Half Painting Composed Well

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting. Rodney Atkins

Life Love Silence You Change Eyes Experience Song Tears Wind Somebody Picture Painting Our Magic Could Blank Blank Canvas Write Songwriters Songwriting Idea Like Up Closest Closest Thing Canvas Then Creating Why Ever Thing Bring

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. Philip Guston

You Illusion Painting See Magic Piece

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. Rene Magritte

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it? Agnes Martin

Happiness Morning You Happy People Wake Up Feeling Painting Say Like Look Makes Goal Wake Up Them Who

When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers. Dan Jenkins

Home You Vote People Old College Young Painting Too Enough Stately All People Adult Look Until Cheerleaders Limp Wall Closely Yorkshire Hanging Old Enough Your England Resemble Appears

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. Norman Rockwell

Great Happy Country Big Painting Extravagance Those Some Had Picked Days Like Sort Proud Era Were Years Up Itself American Ended Crash Again Then Now Believed

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing. Rudolf Steiner

Writing Human Being Painting Rudimentary Draw Drawing Allow Develop Develops Done Human Being Children Interest Being Done Should Whole Why

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life Picture Painting Sum Doing

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting. Agnes Martin

You Painting Our Minds See Perfect Perfection Make

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism. Alessandro Michele

Beautiful Rose Painting Think Fabric Something Between Piece Renaissance Austen Very Same Same Level Difference Romantic Romanticism Story Jane Jane Austen Really Novel Level Peanuts

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. Arnold Schoenberg

Music Emotions Words Cause Feelings Vice Versa Painting Way Outlet Something Could Never Had Know Also Renounce Versa Very Did Vice Whether Capable Expressing Why

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving. Brandon Boyd

Music Creative Problem Random Pure Painting Intricate Solving Purely More Puzzle Like Bliss Lot Problem-Solving Whereas Much Moments

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!' Brian Fallon

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. Chuck Close

Life Art Time Me You Experience Amazing Space Somebody Painting Every Think Every Time Mediums Way See Life Experience Magical Dirt Colored Most Make Another Another Way How Surface Go Truly Where Flat Figured Rub Museum

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song. Dave Matthews

Music Good Selfish People Song Kiss Painting Else Someone Touch Touch People Something Idea Feel Feels Well Make Whether Reason Reasons Play Play Music Good Idea

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. Edie Sedgwick

Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture. Fat Joe

You Yourself Result Picture Painting Once Easier See Brushes Colors Supposed Envision Identify End Up End Result Wall Where Want Canvas Much Paint Grow Grow Up Right Bring

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. Grandma Moses

Important Painting Busy Important Thing Keeping Thing

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