“I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or you could suck it.” — Charlie Cochet Copy Share Image
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it. — Lila Acheson Wallace Copy Share Image
Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin Copy Share Image
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
“Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“I like that the skies go nowhere. In the painting. I like that the birds want to get away but they can't.… — cath crowley Copy Share Image
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing… — Tim Zuck Copy Share Image
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting,… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim. — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but… — Michael Israel Copy Share Image
I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that. — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin Copy Share Image
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting. — Andrew McDermott Copy Share Image
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
