Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Stella

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Edward Hopper

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

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

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.

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.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Jeaniene Frost

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.