The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. – Yves Tanguy
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you. – Susan Minot
My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle. – Yves Chauvin
We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold. – Simon McBurney
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs. – William Morris Hunt
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again. – Walter Gropius
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art – drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever. – Shooter Jennings
We look at the Mona Lisa and say we’re going to do our version of the Mona Lisa. We mirror it. But exaptation would say that painting the Mona Lisa would lead to a whole new place… Bugs Bunny. – Terrance Hayes
It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting. – Susan Vreeland
I don’t believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. – William Merritt Chase
‘State’ can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb – it’s kind of why I chose that title. It’s not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to. – Todd Rundgren
Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting. – Shaun Tan
I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different. – Virat Kohli
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it. – William Hogarth
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents – as an element – the greatest difficulty in manipulation. – Sergei Eisenstein
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different – it’s about making something. – Saul Leiter
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. – Twyla Tharp
I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together. – Thomas McDonell
My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places… I’ll leave what I mean by ‘places’ ambiguous. – Terrance Hayes
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I’d love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days. – Sylvia Kristel
If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things. – Winston Churchill
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. – Theodore Robinson