Pablo Picasso
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
Jackson Pollock
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
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.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion.…
John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
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…
Pierre Bonnard
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.”
Claude Monet
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become…
Alexander Calder
“I paint with shapes.”
Edward Hopper
“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”
Conrad Hall
“Painting and writing are solitary arts.”
Robert Delaunay
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”
Frida Kahlo
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
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.”
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,…
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.”
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“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
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