Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and…

I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.

— Julia Child

I have a degree in Fine Arts. Do you want fries with that?

— Rick Sutter

“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”

— César Vallejo

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

— John Dewey

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing…

— Mitt Romney

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in…

— Ivan Eyre

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

— Pierre Soulages

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public reaction is…

— Banksy

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

— Will Ferrell

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with…

— Pablo Picasso

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

— Pablo Picasso

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as…

— Dan Fogelberg