You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The painter, Edouard Manet, once observed: “There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.” — Bert Dodson Copy Share Image
Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting. — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. — Balthus Copy Share Image
“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.” — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“True Discipleship makes a man and woman a project or an portrait painting to completion With a careful detail and awareness of… — Apostle Louis Gordon Jr Copy Share Image
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
What really happened was one day in my late five I went out and I found my dad in the garage staining… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
“Painting a black thing white won't make you stronger. Nothing false can ever last longer” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
“Picasso was mainly dealing with winning Lottery tickets... and sometimes with painting.” — Jean-Michel Rene Souche Copy Share Image
I had a wife, kids and a mortgage and my acting career was nowhere, so I was painting and decorating people's homes. — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside. — John Dyer Copy Share Image
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
