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Painting Quotes

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I’ll do some great, awful painting about her.

– Jean-Michel Basquiat

Wine pricing is an art – like painting.

– Joe Bastianich

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief – a thing, not a picture.

– Jerry Saltz

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

– John Burnside

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting.

– Josef Albers

I believe, even when I’m doing my standup or my acting or whatever I’m doing, I believe in painting pictures.

– J. B. Smoove

Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there’s always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.

– Jon Favreau

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

– Jackson Pollock

I tell my workshop students, ‘I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you’re writing, you’re painting, you’re crafting, you’re making a design, you’re sculpting, you’re creating choreography, sound, a sound script.’

– Juan Felipe Herrera

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don’t want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

– James Frey

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

– Abraham Maslow

I don’t want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

– Chuck Close

I counterfeited Mark Kostabi’s artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn’t paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.

– Andy Behrman

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

– Jeff Koons

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

– Aime Cesaire

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it’s the music that I want to hear- that’s my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

– Ikue Mori

I found I have to stay painting.

– Alan Bean

I’ve always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I’ve done. Mainly because I don’t do it well. But it’s like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

– Judi Dench

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I’ll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She’ll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

– Anthony Doerr

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really.

– Balthus

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

– Catherine Deneuve

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

– Chris Lilley

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

– Corita Kent

When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.

– China Machado

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

– Andrew Wyeth

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

– Charlotte Rampling

When I’m painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture – and writing is as well.

– Antony Sher

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

– Bridget Riley

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I’ve done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

– Claude Monet

I love film – it’s like painting.

– Azzedine Alaia

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