All Quotes

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
‐‐ Peter Doig

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
‐‐ Yayoi Kusama

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
‐‐ Niki de St. Phalle

Painting completed my life.
‐‐ Frida Kahlo

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
‐‐ Max Beckmann

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
‐‐ Leon Battista Alberti

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
‐‐ Theodore Robinson

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
‐‐ Chuck Jones

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.
‐‐ Dianna Agron

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
‐‐ Richard Pousette-Dart

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Painting, I think it's like jazz.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.
‐‐ Lee Krasner

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Painting is a coalescing of experience.
‐‐ Richard Phillips

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

Painting is a hobby for me.
‐‐ Renee O'Connor

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
‐‐ Balthus

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
‐‐ Chuck Close

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
‐‐ Georges Braque

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
‐‐ Balthus

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
‐‐ Max Beckmann

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.
‐‐ Alison Mosshart

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
‐‐ Gustave Courbet

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
‐‐ Philip Guston

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Painting is by nature a luminous language.
‐‐ Robert Delaunay

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
‐‐ Edgar Degas

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
‐‐ Bridget Riley

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
‐‐ Tony Curtis

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
‐‐ Max Ernst

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
‐‐ Margrethe II of Denmark

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
‐‐ John Dyer

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

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
‐‐ Jackson Pollock

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
‐‐ Plutarch

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
‐‐ Caio Fonseca

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
‐‐ John Berger

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
‐‐ Lucian Freud

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

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
‐‐ Kazimir Malevich

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
‐‐ Chuck Close