Quotes about Painting

"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."
-Marc Chagall

"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."
-Man Ray

"Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life."
-John Sloan

"Life obliges me to do something, so I paint."
-Rene Magritte

"For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
-Paul Cezanne

"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter."
-Paul Klee

"Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask."
-Robert Motherwell

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view."
-Jacques Lipchitz

"Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint."
-Frank Capra

"In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat."
-Pierre auguste Renoir

"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous."
-Pierre auguste Renoir

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
-Edgar Degas

"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
-Ellen Key

"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"
-Ernst Haas

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
-Pablo Picasso

"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
-Milton Friedman

"Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them."
-John Erskine

"The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame."
-Gertrude Stein

"I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself."
-James Franco

"My painting carries with it the message of pain."
-Frida Kahlo

"Because gold represents light to me. Gold and crystal. Because I need light for painting and I also need light to look. It's the most fascinating thing, how it changes."
-Katinka De Montal

"We were excited, ... We couldn't believe that the painting was actually on a truck headed for Colorado Springs when Ackerman called."
-Cathy Wright

"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
-Jackson Pollock

"We'll have face painting and hula hoop games and other circus challenges, as well as novelty photo ops — things like that."
-Leslie Brolin

"We want it going somewhere where it will be taken care of properly and displayed properly. The painting and everything that would be involved is big."
-Kevin Cox