Quotes About Oil Painting

#1. Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

Paul Strand

#2. In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

Henry Flynt

#3. Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Joe Bradley

#4. I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Harvey Fierstein

#5. Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

Richard Peck

#6. When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

Myfanwy Pavelic

#7. Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

Willem De Kooning

#8. Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

John Berger

#9. Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

James Wolcott

#10. If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Peter Shaffer

#11. Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.

Banksy

#12. Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Frank Delaney

#13. She kept silent for fifty miles as he looked out his window at the last gasps of fall in the distant hills - pretty red and yellow swaths of foliage surrounded by sad patches of gray, like an unfinished oil painting.

Drew Magary

#14. I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#15. Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Edvard Munch

#16. Like the rest of the house, it was beautifully appointed with shiny European wallpaper, lavender-scented soap and an oil painting over the toilet. Geoff

Dan Skinner

#17. Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

Stanley H. Horowitz

#18. In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

John Berger

#19. Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Robertson Davies

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P.D. James

#21. The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

Bernard Ingham

#22. St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution oil painting by Alex Grey, 2006 color image in the book Net of Being by Alex Grey, 2012

Rhoney Gissen Stanley

#23. With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

Jo Brand

#24. When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#26. My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

Luanne Rice

#27. A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.

Robert Rauschenberg

#28. My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

Paul Cezanne

#29. I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.

Leonid Afremov

#30. We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

John F. Carlsons

#31. Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

John Gossage

#32. Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.

Robert Warren

#33. After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

Ron Parker

#34. I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

Thomas Gainsborough

#35. Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Austin O'Malley

#36. Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

Tina Fey

#37. I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

Carmen Ejogo