Beautiful Quote by Anais Nin

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the…

— Luc Tuymans

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

— James Rosenquist

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least…

— Susan Minot

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph,…

— Sara Sheridan

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

— Robert Henri

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

— Paula Fox

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that…

— Edvard Munch