Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Frank Gehry

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

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]

Horace

A poem is like a painting.

Howard Hodgkin

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

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

My paintings are wiser than I am.

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.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

The more I paint the more I like everything.

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?

Honore de Balzac

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

Georg Baselitz

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