Art Quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?”

— Gregory Maguire

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to paint is…

— Galib Mammadov

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

— Tony Curtis

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we…

— John Baldessari

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“See, if you paint wrong because that’s the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to?…

— Neal Shusterman

“This could be your big ticket,” he said. “You know what happens to you at art school?” I shook my head. “All that good…

— Steve Hamilton

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

“-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir