577 Quotes About Painting

But I had no patience with this convent chatter. I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I had had my finger in the great, succulent pie of creation. I was a man of the Renaissance that evening- of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes, and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hair-splitting speech.

And as the light flickered over it in bands, I had the queasy sense of my own life, in comparison, as a patternless and transient burst of energy, a fizz of biological static just as random as the street lamps flashing past.

look at the painting and listen to the wind

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not.

The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.

the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.

The world is held together by lies. When I paint, I'm searching for the truth between them, but I'm no better at this than anyone else. Worse, probably.