Famous Quotes & Sayings

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Wayne Thiebaud

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Vinny Guadagnino

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Joni Mitchell

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Henri Rousseau

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

At first I thought you paint only when inspired, ... I'd do nothing, then I'd paint 10 paintings in a week. Then I'd fret.

Calvin Hill

It's the first painting I purchased in 1969 when I was a rookie.

Jennifer Taylor

It is unusual. It is not your typical painted furniture,

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Beatrice Lillie

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Edouard Manet

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

Edouard Manet

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

Edouard Manet

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jamie Wyeth

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

I usually try to paint things that I've actually seen. I've been to Europe. I studied there for about a month.