Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Alfred Sisley

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

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Tom Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Steve Martin

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

Steve Coogan

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Roy Lichtenstein

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

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.

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

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

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

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.

Georg Baselitz

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

Cy Twombly

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

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.

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.