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Painting Quotes by Ben Shahn
- If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me…
- It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it…
- It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or…
- If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert…
- Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions.…
- An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him…
More Painting Quotes
- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — 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… — 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… — 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.… — 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… — Jean-Michel Basquiat