Painting Quotes - page 62

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts. (Margrethe II of Denmark)
The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts. View quote
Margrethe II of Denmark
If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
Why, the question is often asked of me Do you choose as subjects for painting So often death, perishing and the grave? In order to one day live eternally One must often submit oneself to death. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees in himself. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. Otherwise his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. View quote
Yoko Ono
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky. View quote
Cher
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold. View quote
Julio Iglesias
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself. View quote
Jane Seymour
There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it. View quote
Thomas Fuller
As a means of expression, painting must deliver universally valid statements, make allegorical reflections on life, and create new mythologies. (Stefan Szczesny)
A painting grows like a plant. Use all colours, all shapes. Everything that attracts and excites me is a part of me. Painting is about proportions, relationships which breathe life. "Painting is a harmony which runs parallel to nature." View quote
Stefan Szczesny
What is the secret behind the emotional effect of great works of painting? What laws govern their beauty? Delacroix said that being a feast for the eyes is the prime merit of a good painting. I seek the timeless, the quintessential in painting. View quote
Stefan Szczesny
Everything is love. "HEAVEN ON EARTH" our idea of heaven has been formed by painting and nothing else. I love pure, bright colours, their intellectual clarity of expression conveying nothing but feeling. Painting - the inspired animation of the surface. View quote
Stefan Szczesny
Light, colour, love - let me come under your spell. Life can be represented only by a lively kind of painting. There is clarity in passion. View quote
Stefan Szczesny
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities. View quote
Umberto Eco
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. View quote
Blaise Pascal
What a strange vanity painting is it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. View quote
Blaise Pascal
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. View quote
Alanis Morissette
I hate painting, and poetry too! Neither the one nor the other ever did any good. View quote
George II of Great Britain
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that? (Banksy)
When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. View quote
Noel Fielding
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. View quote
Mark Helprin
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. View quote
J. G. Ballard
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. View quote
J. G. Ballard