Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Steve Coogan

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Stephane Mallarme

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Ralph Bakshi

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

Sergei Eisenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Philip Guston

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Philip Guston

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Mark Rothko

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Mac Miller

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

I wish I could paint like that again, but I don't want to go there again.

Jim Henson

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Ernst Haas

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Francis Bacon

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Francis Bacon

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Francis Bacon

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Francis Bacon

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

George Carlin

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

Henry Miller

Paint what you like and die happy

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Geoffrey Holder

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Georges Braque

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Hannah More

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Georges Seurat

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Irving Stone

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Irving Stone

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Gerhard Richter

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.