Painting Quotes

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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was… — Dan Aykroyd
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a… — David Bailey
My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the… — Balthus
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
Most women are not as young as they are painted. — Max Beerbohm
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you… — John Berger
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very… — Jacqueline Bisset
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred… — Aeschylus

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