577 Quotes About Painting

We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.

Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains

Life, like a good painting, needs balance, a harmonious arrangement to avoid being chaotic, a mess, a failure.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

The wall was an eyesore in its newness, grayness, lack of grace. That much blank space might not set a regular person's blood racing, but to an artist, it's like opening up a new sketchpad, the kind with heavy textured paper. Impossible to leave it empty.

Art is a visual language; I'm just perfecting my alphabet.

Creativity is like a compass, each one has its own, and all point to the North.

To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours, their blending and their contrast, the mysterious vibrations of related tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark background. To express hope by some star. Someone's passion by the radiance of the setting sun. That's certainly no realistic trompe l'oeil, but something that really exists, isn't it?

An artist need to be free in imagination and disciplined in execution.