Top 1200 Painting A Picture Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

Painting is so much more than the materials.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.

Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally a poster that reads "Stop The War." Or you'll have a story about a cash crisis in Barcelona, and the only picture you'll see is an ATM in Barcelona. The problem is actually systemic. On the one hand, you'll have a picture of a soda can to "illustrate" an article about the dangers of sugary drinks. On the other hand, anything that's reasonable in documentary photography is snapped up by the art world and we never see it.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

The real subject of every painting is light.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and overworked, and you can read in it as well - she did this and then she did that; there is something in it that has not got to do with beautiful art to me. And I usually throw these out, though I think very often it takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce one really beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute.

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

I have always been fond of painting landscapes.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

I will keep painting until I die.

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.