577 Quotes About Painting

There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.

who paints the sky will walk on clouds

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

If you can’t paint a man falling from a five story building before he hits the ground, you will never make a monumental painting.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surroundingatmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

The picture is a flash of color stories. No one can imagine a picture that has no story.

How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.'(Amber)'Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you ever seen something so beautiful you feel like crying? When I see you, I feel that way. I feel like the deepest part of me understands something vital about you.'(Virgil Daly)

Pearls.Take, like an oyster,your irritations, your pain.Use these to create your masterpiece.