I hate painting.
Howard Hodgkin

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
Kenneth Noland

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.
Lucian Freud

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
Max Beckmann

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
Howard Hodgkin

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
Jacqueline Bisset

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.
Neil LaBute

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
Pharrell Williams

Painting is a hobby for me.
Renee O'Connor

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Kathryn Bigelow

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
Robert Delaunay

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
Tony Curtis

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.
Lindsey Buckingham

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
Balthus

Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
Bryan Ferry

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
Jodie Foster

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
John Dyer

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
Julie Harris