“ A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. ”
- Edmond de Goncourt- Copy
- 578
“ Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. ”
- George Tooker- Copy
- 429
“ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. ”
- Jackson Pollock- Copy
- 2K
“ It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. ”
- Jeff Melvoin- Copy
- 3.2K
“ A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ”
- Michelangelo Buonarroti- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There 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 Picasso- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. ”
- Simonides- Copy
- 814
“ Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself. ”
- William Baziotes- Copy
- 551
“ Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. ”
- Simonides- Copy
- 355
“ There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 2K
“ Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. ”
- Oliver Cromwell- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Each painting has its own way of evolving…When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself. ”
- William Baziotes- Copy
- 974
“ It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. ”
- Jeff Melvoin- Copy
- 351
“ In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The only thing stupider than making a painting was making a representational painting, and of all the genres the most dead and seemingly bankrupt was portraiture. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 366
“ Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3K
“ A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. ”
- Edmond de Goncourt- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. ”
- George Tooker- Copy
- 3.6K
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