Painting Quotes

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Andy Warhol

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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Gustave Courbet

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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Balthus

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

Anthony Quinn

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I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Georg Baselitz

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When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Michael Ironside

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But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

Howard Finster

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Color is a passion; painting is a passion.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

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Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

Wolfgang Puck

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My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

Frank Crowninshield

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

John Singer Sargent

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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Henry Rollins

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If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all.

Alison Mosshart

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

Catherine Deneuve

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I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

Stephen Hough

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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Georges Rouault

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I always start a painting with the sky.

Alfred Sisley

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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Carolina Herrera

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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Grace Jones

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Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

William Klein

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Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

Adrien Brody

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My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

Tony Bennett

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It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

Erin Morgenstern

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