Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Cy Twombly

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

Persis Khambatta

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

Ben Whishaw

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

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

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.

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.

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

Greg Collins

The whole thing is to paint me as anti-business and no-growth,

Larry Davis

You never have to paint it, just get a hose.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Balthus

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

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Heath Bell

Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing.

Damien Hirst

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.