Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rauschenberg

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

Robert Delaunay

Nature engenders the science of painting

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Vincent Van Gogh

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

Vincent Van Gogh

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

Walter Annenberg

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

William Blake

What has reasoning to do with painting?

Wayne White

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

Vinny Guadagnino

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Horace

A poem is like a painting.

Georges Braque

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

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.

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.

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.

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

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.

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

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.

Miles Davis

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Joni Mitchell

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