Painting Quotes - page 2

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. (William Blake)
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. View quote
Denis Diderot
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. View quote
Pierre Loti
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor. View quote
Giotto di Bondone
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. View quote
Eric Kandel
Painting is with me but another word for feeling. View quote
John Constable
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting. (John Ruskin)
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. View quote
Herbert Simon
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts. View quote
Joseph Addison
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. View quote
Maurice de Vlaminck
A painting that is well composed is half-finished. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
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. View quote
Mary McCarthy
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get. View quote
Frank Stella
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. (Bob Ross)
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
My painting carries with it the message of pain. View quote
Frida Kahlo
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished. View quote
Rembrandt
... lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? View quote
Wassily Kandinsky