Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Francis Bacon

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

I usually try to paint things that I've actually seen. I've been to Europe. I studied there for about a month.

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Henry Miller

Paint what you like and die happy

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

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

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

Tracy Morgan

The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!

At first I thought you paint only when inspired, ... I'd do nothing, then I'd paint 10 paintings in a week. Then I'd fret.

They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.

Larry Davis

You never have to paint it, just get a hose.

Milton Avery

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

Georg Baselitz

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

I don't want to paint myself into a corner,'' he said.

Pablo Picasso

I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.

Honore de Balzac

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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.

Paul Auster

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

LeRoy Neiman

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...

Pierre Loti

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

Kazimir Malevich

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Margaret Atwood

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

Larry Poons

A great painting is a great painting.

Pablo Picasso

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

Pablo Picasso

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

Paul Cezanne

I have sworn to die painting.