Painting Quotes

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

Phil Collins

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For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

Yusaku Maezawa

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When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

Roma Downey

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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

David Hockney

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I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them.

Peter Max

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Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Viggo Mortensen

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When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'

Roy Lichtenstein

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As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

David Lynch

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Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Peter Wright

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

Taika Waititi

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I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

Mary Ellen Mark

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I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea.

David Allee

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I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.

Peter Falk

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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

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I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

Mickey Drexler

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Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.

Charlotte Rampling

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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

Sean Scully

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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

P. J. Harvey

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I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Mickalene Thomas

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I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

Catherine Opie

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I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that character anymore. So I'll get offers for panicky, pathetic guys, and while it's a great compliment to get them, I feel like I don't need to play that again.

Scott Adsit

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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

Orhan Pamuk

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Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Minnie Driver

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Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

Blase J. Cupich

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