Painting quotes
94 painting quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Happy Gilmore
- From the movie: The Postman
“You're no general. You're not even a good painter.”
- From the movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
“Yeh, that's me taking the bull by the horns, it's how I like to run my business. It's a metaphor. But that actually happened though.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
- La trovi in Actors and Art
“How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.”
- From the movie: Loving Vincent
“What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.”
- From the TV Series: Stranger Things
“Well, I don’t know who’s been raising you, but I’m going to get you some new crayons because it looks like he’s shooting cabbages.”
- La trovi in Actors and Art
“To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.”
“Acting is painting, not photography, but painting is just as 'real' as photography.”
- From the movie: Harvey
“I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it. It's our dreams, doctor, that carry us on. They separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't want to go on living...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Scarlet Street
- From the movie: Scarlet Street
“- Adele Cross: Next thing you'll be painting women without clothes.
- Christopher Cross: I never saw a woman without any clothes.
- Adele Cross: I should hope not!” - From the movie: Scarlet Street
“- Kitty March: How long does it take you to paint a picture?
- Christopher Cross: Sometimes a day, sometimes a year. You can't tell. It has to grow.
- Kitty March: I never knew paint could grow.
- Christopher Cross: Feeling grows. You know, that's the important thing, feeling. You take me. No one ever taught me how to draw, so I just put a...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Scarlet Street
“The way I think of things, that all art is. Every painting, if it's any good, is a love affair.”
“Before you know it, the Renaissance will be here and we'll all be painting.”
“You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“Painted reality is its own reality.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“- Vincent van Gogh: Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture.
- Paul Gauguin: Think about the surface that you're painting on and how the paint will sit on it. You're changing things so fast, you can't even see what you've done.
- Vincent van Gogh: Paintings have to be painted fast. The painters I like all paint fast in one clear gesture...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I paint with my qualities and faults.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“Seurat confounds painting with science. He's lost himself in optical experiments. There's nothing more to expect from Renoir, Degas, Monet. They repeat themselves. They've given everything they could give.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I paint, as a matter of fact, to stop thinking. I stop thinking, and I feel that I'm a part of everything outside and inside of me.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“- Doctor Felix Ray: What do you paint?
- Vincent van Gogh: Sunlight.” - From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“Without painting, I don't think I can live.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I'd like to find a new light. A new light for paintings we haven't yet seen.”
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