Ambrose Bierce
“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to…
Claude Monet
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become…
Edgar Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
E. O. Wilson
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
Peter Max
“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself.…
Khalil Gibran
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
Dick Dale
“Every song is like a painting.”
Henri Rousseau
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
Gustave Courbet
“Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of…
Hans Hofmann
“Through a painting we can see the whole world.”
Frida Kahlo
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I…
John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
Emily Carr
“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own,…
Jackson Pollock
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into…
Henri Matisse
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
Otto Dix
“You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.”
Willem de Kooning
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
Grandma Moses
“If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better…
Hedy Lamarr
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company,…
Balthus
“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the…
Philip Guston
“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”
Camille Pissarro
“Paint the essential character of things.”
Giotto di Bondone
“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.”
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.”
Corita Kent
“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with…
Lionel Trilling
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all…
Alexander Calder
“I paint with shapes.”
Recording a conversation that will cheer you up: the funniest moments
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