Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Bakshi

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

Sergei Eisenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Max Ernst

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Mark Tobey

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value...

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

More than a process, painting is being possessed...

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.

Philip Guston

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

John Ruskin

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

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

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

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

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Frank Gehry

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

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

Georges Braque

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

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.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

Painting isn't his primary job, and, he's only been doing it for 19 months.