621 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

Color is a passion; painting is a passion. Barbara Januszkiewicz

Passion Painting Color

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door. Beau Willimon

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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences. Ben Harper

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I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a culinary experience. Benny Cassette

Music Experience Song Painting Three-Dimensional Also Make Culinary Want

I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what type of medium they are using - whether it be from painting to acting to dancing, songwriting, or anything like that - I believe the desire is to get to the truth, and I think it's really hard to tell the truth. Beth Hart

Truth Hope Speak Matter Painting Believe Think Other Medium Others Type Dancing Tell Songwriting Like Always Get Artists Anything Whether Mean Really Acting Hard Using Desire

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920. Betty Parsons

Painting Since Been Working Sculpture

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner. Billy Childish

Job Sunday Dinner Painting Make Sure Cook

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters. Billy Childish

Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting. Blase J. Cupich

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Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting. Bo Burnham

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great. Bob Elliott

Art Great Business Army Gone Painting Kid Out Would Since Come Because Been Did Paint Radio

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. Brad Holland

Today Black Painting Would Both Picasso Velvet Were Starting Careers

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me. Brandon Boyd

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major. Brett Dalton

Painting, I think it's like jazz. Brian Eno

Jazz Painting Think Like

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting. Brian Eno

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before. Brian Eno

Art You Conversation Experience Long Seen Looking Before Painting Our Latest Way Though Having Always Line Been Any

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that. Brian Eno

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In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design. Brian Wildsmith

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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. Bridget Riley

Spiritual Values Painting Think Archaic Inevitably Depends Activity

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience. Brie Larson

Me Experience School Walls Painting Dances High High School Football Football Games Weird Stuff Got Doing Going Wanted Interested Room Games

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that. Bryan Ferry

Art Writing Painting Sleeves Posters Some Only Songs Like Stopped Connected Things Extent Started Album Career

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