Muzhiks Painting Quotes

#1. I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. #Quote by Joan Miro

#2. I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. #Quote by Julian Schnabel

#3. What is art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? Didn't it all boil down to sticking a female in front of you and painting her as you feel she is? #Quote by Emile Zola

#4. I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. #Quote by Jackie Kennedy

#5. All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression #Quote by Richard Diebenkorn

#6. I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy-three I have at last caught every aspect of nature–birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further and I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life. - from Hokusai's 'The Art Crazy Old Man #Quote by Hokusai Katsushika

#7. You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's. #Quote by Elvis Costello

#8. Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But its beauty was so think and so real that it could never be just a painting #Quote by Gary D. Schmidt

#9. And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done #Quote by Pierre Bonnard

#10. What is the world? What is it for?
It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the infinite. Assess it like prose, like poetry, like architecture, sculpture, painting, dance, delta blues, opera, tragedy, comedy, romance, epic. Assess it like you would a Faberge egg, like a gunfight, like a musical, like a snowflake, like a death, a birth, a triumph, a love story, a tornado, a smile, a heartbreak, a sweater, a hunger pain, a desire, a fufillment, a desert, a waterfall, a song, a race, a frog, a play, a song, a marriage, a consummation, a thirst quenched.
Assess it like that. And when you're done, find an ant and have him assess the cathedrals of Europe. #Quote by N.D. Wilson

#11. The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime. #Quote by Edgar Degas

#12. It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting. #Quote by Susan Vreeland

#13. Why don't we keep that secret? Hunters will lose their reputations if we're seen saving puppies and painting flowers. #Quote by Katherine McIntyre

#14. If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The painting was done regardless of it. You could remove the red and still the painting would be there. But in Matisse's work it is inconceivable that you could remove a spot of red, no matter how small without the entire painting instantly collapsing.' Pablo Picasso #Quote by Volkmar Essers

#15. I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career. #Quote by Robyn Davidson

#16. I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens. #Quote by JWoww

#17. It had never been a secret that I'd idealized my father, that I would've done anything to please him--to be the apple of his eye (to use the worst and most obvious cliché)--but what I didn't quite get until the painting was the sadness of all that trying. I hadn't understood the small, powerless places it had taken me. But even more than this, I had never completely realized how this same thing had gone on with Hugh. I'd accommodated myself to him for twenty years without any real idea of what it was to have possession of my own self. To own myself, so to speak. #Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

#18. Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach. #Quote by Prince Charles

#19. Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't, but every day you try. That's what painting is. #Quote by Zibby Oneal

#20. [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature. #Quote by George Will

#21. Golden framed and heavy, the painting.
Ocean waves curled in suspended time,
white-lipped and silent beneath brush-stroked blues
of sky. Gulls are captured there, mid-flight, fishing moments stolen in time, they soar without moving. #Quote by Christina M. Ward

#22. "Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc. #Quote by Matthew Carter

#23. Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters. #Quote by Igor Babailov

#24. If you're to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you're the artist, not the canvas. #Quote by Val Uchendu

#25. All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity. #Quote by Patrick Swift

#26. In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do. #Quote by Richard Schmid

#27. The interesting thing, in the photograph, was how the fragile little knock-kneed boy - smiling sweetly, pristine in his sailor suit - was also the old man who'd clasped my hand while he was dying: two separate frames, superimposed upon each other, of the same soul. And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate. There wasn't a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out. #Quote by Donna Tartt

#28. Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation
for greater living and greater relationships. #Quote by Mary Morrissey

#29. Maybe da Vinci didn't serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter. #Quote by Monica Drake

#30. I have plenty of enemies ... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant. #Quote by Arnold Friberg

#31. Daemonic compulsiveness can kill as easily as it can save.
The true novelist must be at once driven and indifferent. Van
Gogh never sold a painting in his life. Poe came close with
poetry and fiction, selling very little. Drivenness only helps if
it forces the writer not to suicide but to the making of splendid
works of art, allowing him indifference to whether or not the
novel sells, whether or not it's appreciated. Drivenness is trouble
for both the novelist and his friends; but no novelist, I
think, can succeed without it. Along with the peasant in the
novelist, there must be a man with a whip. #Quote by John Gardner