Painting Quotes

In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.

Theresa Sjoquist

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.

Ivan Eyre

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!

Honoré de Balzac

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

I mix them with my brains sir.

John Opie

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

Jean Baptiste Corot

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James McNeill Whistler

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent van Gogh

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

Georges Rouault

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

William Hazlitt

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

Peter Paul Rubens

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

Some day they will know what I mean.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Lord Beaverbrook

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.

Ivan Eyre

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!

Honoré de Balzac

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

I mix them with my brains sir.

John Opie

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

Jean Baptiste Corot

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James McNeill Whistler

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent van Gogh

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

Georges Rouault

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

William Hazlitt

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

Peter Paul Rubens

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

Some day they will know what I mean.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Lord Beaverbrook

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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