Dinner Quote by Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

— Robert Henri

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

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

— Francis Bacon

Painting is more important than art.

— Wayne Thiebaud

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too…

— Samuel Morse

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

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 is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr