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Quotes About Expression

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
~ Larry Poons
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
~ Peter Wright
A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.
~ John Mellencamp
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
~ Robert Ryan
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
~ Pharrell Williams
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
~ Richard MacDonald
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
~ Max Beckmann
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
~ Pierre Loti
All my album artwork is body painting.
~ Kimbra
You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.
~ Julian Schnabel
Easel painting means small painting.
~ David Hockney
I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
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'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
~ Antony Sher
People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.
~ Gerhard Richter
If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
~ Daniel H. Pink
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
~ Julian Schnabel
Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.
~ LeRoy Neiman
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
~ Harvey Pekar
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
~ Brian Eno
I've been painting and making things since I was little.
~ Jemima Kirke