Courses Quote by Claude Monet

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist,…

— Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.

— Robert Henri

“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at a distance…

— John Bunyan

“The fact is that you are bringing something valuable to a man's life – your warmth, your caring, your wit, your beauty, your interest,…

— Ali Binazir

“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the…

— Donna Tartt

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own…

— Barnett Newman

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think, 'oh, I…

— Donna Tartt

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire