Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Henson

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Jennifer Taylor

It is unusual. It is not your typical painted furniture,

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.

Calvin Hill

It's the first painting I purchased in 1969 when I was a rookie.

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.