577 Quotes About Painting

If one part of your life crumbles, it can shatter so many other parts of your life. Life is all about dots, you can't draw a decent picture without completing all the dots.

Wylan wanted to scream. The closet was crammed with paintings—landscapes, different views of the hospital grounds, a lake in sun and shadow, and there, repeated again and again, was the face of a little boy with ruddy curls and bright blue eyes.

I've been thinking about what you said about seeing and not seeing. I had a painting teacher once tell me that the difference between a good painting and a great painting is typically five strokes. And they're usually the five boldest strokes in the painting. The question is, of course, is which five strokes?

Painting the words of my soul Across the skiesUnder the stonesLeaving a trail for you to seeCalling out loud, “Here I am! Can you see me?”Anxiously waiting; hoping to be heardMeaning what I say; every single wordPainting the words of my truthBeginning with me, andEnding with youLeaving a trail for you to seeLoudly painting, “Here I am! Can you see me?

I liked The Water Nymph. It was a dark-haired woman sitting in a dimly lit deep green forest on a gray stone slab overlooking a dark blue spring. It was a contemplative, moody piece and the girl looked the way I imagined I would if I were alone and someone was staring at me without my knowing that they were there.

A good painter, is a dead one.

[Eu] Tinha selado uma relação com nosso quarto. Aquela janela era a coisa mais amada da vida, teria a levado junto se janelas se movessem com a vista junto.

Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable.

Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein