I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good things.
Alia Shawkat
DogLoveGoodHopeDayPainting
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Frank Stella
LiveArtSpacePaintingCreateAim
I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.
Amy Sherald
PaintingBlackEnoughBodyWantWay
If something sticks with me for a long time, it goes into a painting.
Glenn Ligon
TimeMePaintingLongLong Time
Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
Winslow Homer
GoodMomentI AmPaintingThinkAm
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Francisco Goya
NatureTogetherPoetryPaintingLike
We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.
Stephen J. Dubner
GoodFatherSilenceParentsPainting
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.
Gerhard Richter
GreatArtMyselfCulturePainting
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
William Scott
IdeasPaintingHelpDrawingFind
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.
Danny Huston
MePaintingLovedDrawingPassionate
Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.
Sigmar Polke
PaintingRoadYearsTakeBecause
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
PaintingChickensStartedWould
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
SkyPaintingBelieveLandscapeYou
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus
MenPaintingPictureGlitterFair
But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
Tony Curtis
ArtPaintingWhereShowWouldStill
Painting completed my life.
Frida Kahlo
LifePaintingMy LifeCompleted
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Philip Guston
PaintingMagicYouIllusionSee
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper
NaturePaintingAimPossibleAlways
Nature engenders the science of painting.
Robert Delaunay
NatureSciencePainting
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.
Eric Fischl
PaintingSellMakeJustPrimary
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
MindPaintingMagicYouIllusion
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
Ben Harper
LiveAloneTimeArtPaintingYou
I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.
Robyn Davidson
PaintingWritingLovedCareerWay
I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.
Ellsworth Kelly
MorningLightBestPaintingWall
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