No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else.… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
“The Bible is not a painting to be looked at, but a window to be looked through, and through that window we… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image