Painting Quote by Emily Rodda

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller

“For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.”

— Cath Crowley

“I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”

— Leonhard Emmerling

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we'd end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“I was so thankful He gave me this chance to enter a painting, for painting was my weakness. If I could do only two…

— R.A. Rooney

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

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

— Gregory Maguire

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.”

— Andrew Levy

“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate.”

— Donna Tartt