Life Painting Quotes
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Life Painting Quotes & Sayings
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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
— Herbert Spencer
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings
— George Tooker
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.
— Walter Savage Landor
Otherwise he stayed in the background, a small figure in a painting, while life was played out in the foreground. However,
— Nina George
A painting is life and a painting is death ... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.
— Ivan Albright
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
— Edward Hopper
And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.
— George W. Bush
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
— Daniel J. Rice
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
— Jackson Pollock
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
— Henri Matisse
Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
— Georges Braque
My painting is a contest between life and sleep. — Francis Picabia
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
— William C. Wright
We make our own music. We paint our own future. — A.P. Sweet
Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.
— Daniel Habil
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
— Yann Martel
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. — Peter James West
There are moments when clear images finally begin to emerge within the abstract painting of your life.
— Renee Carlino
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
— Margrethe II Of Denmark
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account ...
— Hiroko Sakai
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.
— Michael Dolan
The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
— John Dyer
It's not about getting over things, it's about making room for them. It's about painting the picture with contrast.
— Brianna Wiest
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.
— Fernando Botero
Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.
— Fennel Hudson
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.
— Steven Whitney
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.
— Harold Rosenberg
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.
— Charles Bukowski
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
— Herbert Spencer
think of daily life as an ever-moving three-dimensional painting with you as the artist,
— Jane Roberts
Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.
— Neville Weston
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
— Edgar Degas
To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
— Rafael Moneo
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
— Robert Henri
The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.
— Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete ... to be completed in the mind of the viewer.
— Russell Chatham
If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.
— Les Wexner
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
— Jeremy Collier
Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
— Winston S. Churchill
The painting has a life of its own
— Jackson Pollock
If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.
— Charlotte Rampling
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
— Barnett Newman
Life's a vast seaThat does its mighty errand without fail,
Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. — George Eliot
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
— Susan Vreeland
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
— Richard Pousette-Dart
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
— Benjamin Hoff
My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.
— Robert Gober
If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.
— Harvey Dunn
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
— Georges Rouault
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
The successful painter is continually painting still life.
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
Dutch painting: daily life is enough.
— Mason Cooley
Painting completed my life.
— Frida Kahlo
Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.
— Winston Churchill
But painting can be too lonely ... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
— Marie Windsor
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
— Pablo Picasso
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.
— Eddie Cahill
I wish to die painting.
— Paul Cezanne
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
— Deb Caletti
We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life.
— Steven Redhead
It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.
— Rosamund Hodge
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
— Asger Jorn
He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful.
— Tor Udall
I want to create, not kill.
— Susanne Dunlap
A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.
— Anthony Burgess
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
— Jackson Pollock
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.- 1959, from a catalogue — Robert Rauschenberg
