Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Cezanne

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Mac Miller

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

Christian Marclay

I have never been much of a painter.

John Ruskin

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Robert Henri

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

Eddie Cahill

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

Robert Motherwell

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

William S. Burroughs

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

Yves Saint Laurent

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

William Hazlitt

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.