Painting Quotes - page 6

When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art. View quote
César Vallejo
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting [referring to his printmaking]. View quote
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it. View quote
Lee Krasner
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions. View quote
Lee Krasner
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain. View quote
Mark Tobey
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks. View quote
Simonides of Ceos
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point. View quote
Ben Nicholson
The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel. View quote
Damien Hirst
I have a dream a picture of the bathing spot at the Grenouillere, for which I've made a few poor sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting. View quote
Claude Monet
Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.... Ruskin's Elements. (Claude Monet)
Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything. View quote
Claude Monet
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. View quote
Claude Monet
Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count. View quote
El Greco
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Painting is by nature a luminous language. View quote
Robert Delaunay
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. View quote
Howard Stern
Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution. View quote
Paul Cézanne
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. View quote
Paul Cézanne
Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything... A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.... but no program, no instruction in painting.... drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting – the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.. (Paul Cézanne)
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does. View quote
Franz Kline
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered. View quote
Barnett Newman
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical. View quote
Barnett Newman
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. View quote
Frank Stella