Copying Quote by Claes Oldenburg

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

— Anonymous

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

— Paul Gauguin

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

— Anonymous

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so…

— Kate Greenaway

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

— Henri Matisse

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

— Hans Hofmann

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own…

— Thomas Couture

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and…

— Vija Celmins