Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Quinn

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Edvard Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Edvard Munch

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

I want to reiterate that painting is a medium, it's a way of thinking and it's a way of seeing. I think people often think of painting as a noun, and I think of it as a verb as well as a noun.

When you are putting out a competitive lineup, it's like painting a picture for the judges.

Agnes Martin

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

Dave Hickey

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't,

Ellsworth Kelly

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Paul Auster

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

Pierre Loti

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

Milton Avery

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

Kazimir Malevich

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Honore de Balzac

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Horace

A poem is like a painting.

Ernst Haas

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Georges Braque

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Howard Hodgkin

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

Frank Gehry

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

Francis Bacon

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Francis Bacon

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Fritz Scholder

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

Ralph Bakshi

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

Sergei Eisenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Mark Rothko

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

John Ruskin

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

LeRoy Neiman

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...