Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Martin

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

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

Fritz Scholder

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

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

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

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

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

Joan Miro

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

Joan Miro

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

Eddie Cahill

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

Joni Mitchell

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Lucian Freud

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

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.

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

Horace

A poem is like a painting.

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.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

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.

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.

Georges Braque

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

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

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Howard Hodgkin

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

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

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.