Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

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.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

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.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

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.

Balthus

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

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.

Fritz Scholder

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

Agnes Martin

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

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.

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

Damien Hirst

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

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

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.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

Painting isn't his primary job, and, he's only been doing it for 19 months.

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.

Alfred Sisley

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

Anthony Quinn

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Alexander Pope

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.