Famous Quotes & Sayings

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

The painting put all of the pieces together and proved it was real.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Edvard Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Edvard Munch

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Damien Hirst

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

I think we've got the transition set up pretty seamless. Obviously, weather plays a role in the painting of the field, but that's something we can't control.

When you are putting out a competitive lineup, it's like painting a picture for the judges.

Ellsworth Kelly

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Agnes Martin

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

Fritz Scholder

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

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 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.

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.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edouard Manet

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

Balthus

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.