Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Gerhard Richter

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

Georgia O'Keeffe

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Georg Baselitz

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

I don't want to paint myself into a corner,'' he said.

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 Matisse

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

Cy Twombly

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

Ben Whishaw

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

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.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

Dave Hickey

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't,

Fritz Scholder

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

Ellsworth Kelly

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.