Painting Quote by David Foster Wallace

“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

— Pablo Picasso

“I contend that one is likely to find more truth in fiction. A good painting after all is more truthful than a photograph. Remember…

— Vince Vawter

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.”

— Seth

“These days any planned thing looked good to me. What heaven to have your work cut out for you, to be part of the…

— Laurie Colwin

“a picture wasn’t worth anything if it didn’t produce a reaction, that it takes talent to capture feeling with an image.”

— Brigid Kemmerer

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

“We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed.…

— Heather Duffy Stone

“First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.”

— Robert Henri

“My descendants will manage without my portrait' she smiled. Anyway they'll have plenty of photographs of me. To this our famous conductor replied that…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Paint a good picture if you want to see a good image.”

— Evans Biya

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

— Gregory Maguire