Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
- Adam ChristensenPainting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo PicassoThe painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
- Jackson PollockPainting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
- Adrian KlemmA painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
- Abbey MiedemaEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Abhinav BindraPainting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose BierceIt`s not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
- Jeff MelvoinEach painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
- AgesilausThere are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo PicassoPainting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
- Andy BallI paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
- Pablo PicassoWell, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
- Pablo PicassoWho sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
- Pablo PicassoAre we to paint what`s on the face, what`s inside the face, or what`s behind it?
- Pablo PicassoThe world today doesn`t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
- Pablo PicassoColor 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 KleeLove looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William ShakespeareI experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream
- Vincent van GoghThe poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Leonardo Da VinciPainting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen
- Leonardo Da VinciI`ve been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.
- Stephen WrightOnly when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things
- Edgar DegasI did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
- Henri MatisseIt has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
- Henri MatisseAn amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
- Ben ShahnThere are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
- Dan RiceIdentity is theft of the self
- Estee MartinEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher `We were on a trip to Klosters and Meredith asked if I wanted to do one of the pictures too, but I didn`t want to get my t*** dirty,` she says. `Instead, I watched and she did one for me, in a G-string. It`s now it`s hanging in my apartment in London.`
