Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Annaud

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Christian Marclay

I have never been much of a painter.

Geoffrey Holder

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

George Carlin

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

Frank Gehry

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

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

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.

Hugo Chavez

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

Howard Hodgkin

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

Jamie Wyeth

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical.

Tracy Morgan

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

Jamie Wyeth

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

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.

Greg Collins

The whole thing is to paint me as anti-business and no-growth,

Heath Bell

Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing.

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

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.

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

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]

Hannah More

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Georges Seurat

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.