Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Fred Gwynne

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

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.

Ellsworth Kelly

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Paul Auster

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

Pierre Loti

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

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?

Milton Avery

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

Kazimir Malevich

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Margaret Atwood

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

Pablo Picasso

I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.

Honore de Balzac

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

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.

Greg Peterson

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

They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.

Horace

A poem is like a painting.

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.

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.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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

Christian Marclay

I have never been much of a painter.

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?.

Hugo Chavez

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

Howard Hodgkin

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

George Carlin

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

Frank Gehry

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.