Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Fritz Scholder

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

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

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.

Alexander McCall Smith

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Alexander Pope

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Damien Hirst

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

David Hasselhoff

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

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,

Anthony Quinn

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

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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

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.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Beatrice Lillie

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Edouard Manet

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

Edouard Manet

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

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

Edouard Manet

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

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.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

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.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

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