Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Sunlight is painting.”
John Singer Sargent
“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
Willem de Kooning
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could…
Grandma Moses
“If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better…
Rene Magritte
“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”
Hedy Lamarr
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company,…
Frida Kahlo
“Painting completed my life.”
Agnes Martin
“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever…
Giotto di Bondone
“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.”
Jackson Pollock
“I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette,…
Edgar Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Henri Rousseau
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
Hans Hofmann
“Through a painting we can see the whole world.”
Bret Harte
“Never a lip is curved with pain that can’t be kissed into smiles again.”
Edward Hopper
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
Walter Annenberg
“Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.”
Corita Kent
“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with…
Georges Braque
“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
Dick Dale
“Every song is like a painting.”
Henri Matisse
“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”
Lionel Trilling
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all…
Alexander Calder
“I paint with shapes.”
Philip Guston
“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”
Camille Pissarro
“Paint the essential character of things.”
Otto Dix
“You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.”
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