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What has reason to do with the art of painting? -- William Blake
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. -- Winston Churchill
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. -- Josef Albers
The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete. -- Joseph Plaskett
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. -- Walter J. Phillips
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. -- Edgar Alwin Payne
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. -- Edmund Burke
My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. -- Barry McGee
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. -- Paul Cezanne
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. -- Thomas Hoving
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world. -- Caio Fonseca
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. -- Jerry Saltz
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. -- Ambrose Bierce
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. -- Gustave Courbet
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. -- Peter Wright
I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. -- Armie Hammer
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. -- Caio Fonseca
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. -- James Gray
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition. -- Richard Phillips
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. -- Edvard Munch
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before. -- Brian Eno
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. -- Jacqueline Bisset
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. -- Chuck Close
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. -- Lucian Freud
Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. -- Marcel Duchamp
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively. -- Chris Ofili
Painting is more important than art. -- Wayne Thiebaud
Wine pricing is an art - like painting. -- Joe Bastianich
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface. -- Georges Seurat
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable. -- Domenico Gnoli
Love is art, not truth. Itâ??s like painting scenery. -- Lorrie Moore
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. -- Robert Smithson
But where there is no art show, I would still be painting. -- Tony Curtis
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer. -- Damien Hirst
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion. -- Grace Hartigan
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. -- Harold Rosenberg
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. -- David Hockney
My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art. -- Chantal Sutherland
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting. -- Paul Simonon
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing." -- Harvey Pekar
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. -- William Wordsworth
What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool? -- Leon Battista Alberti
I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting. -- Dennis Hopper
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. -- Gerhard Richter
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. -- Pablo Picasso
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world. -- Michael Leunig
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know. -- Willem de Kooning
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste. -- Walter J. Phillips
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. -- D.T. Suzuki
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. -- Philip Pearlstein
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. -- Brad Holland
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. -- Pablo Picasso
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. -- Roy Lichtenstein
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. -- Roy Lichtenstein
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity. -- Patrick Swift
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. -- Ray Bradbury
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing. -- Salman Rushdie
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. -- John Burnside
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting. -- Shirley Eaton
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match. -- Hulk Hogan
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. -- Robert Breault
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. -- Robert Motherwell
Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art. -- Jenny Saville
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. -- Patton Oswalt
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. -- Susan Vreeland
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. -- Toni Morrison
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities. -- Frederick Sommer
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. -- Shailene Woodley
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . -- Albrecht Durer
A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness. -- Robert Genn
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. -- Joan Miro
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art." -- Albrecht Durer
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. -- Albrecht Durer
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion. -- Albrecht Durer
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. -- Seth Godin
Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines. -- Arthur Wesley Dow
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. -- Chris Ware
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. -- Chris Ware
There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors. -- Domenico Gnoli
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion. -- Seth Godin
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
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever. -- Shooter Jennings
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it. -- Keith Haring
I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division. -- Michael Craig-Martin
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting. -- Marshall McLuhan
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. -- Fernando Botero
Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill. -- Terry Crews
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. -- Kathryn Bigelow
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment. -- Alex Lifeson
I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life. -- Domenico Gnoli
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. -- Tom Stoppard
Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie. -- Julian Schnabel
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. -- Banksy
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. -- Sara Sheridan
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. -- Robert McKee
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. -- Kelly Miller
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through -- Dan Rice
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music. -- Kim Gordon
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines. -- Edvard Munch
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. -- Sydney Pollack
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures. -- Gerhard Richter
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. -- Paul Cezanne
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. -- Yann Martel
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God. -- Patrick Swift
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. -- John Guare
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting. -- John Baldessari
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly. -- Walter Darby Bannard
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts. -- Richard Schmid
Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece! -- Al Michaels
Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all. -- Jacob Nordby

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