Famous Quotes & Sayings

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

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.

Calvin Hill

It's the first painting I purchased in 1969 when I was a rookie.

Cy Twombly

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

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

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

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

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

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Balthus

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

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.

Damien Hirst

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

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Alexander Pope

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Donald O'Connor

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

Anthony Quinn

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Anthony Hopkins

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

Albert Camus

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Albert Camus

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Andre Breton

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Andrew Wyeth

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.