Painting Quote by Grant Achatz

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure…

— Pablo Picasso

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

— Toni Onley

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did -…

— Aubrey Beardsley

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout…

— Robert Breault

“Grant paused in the act of turning the thing over, to consider the face a moment longer. A judge? A soldier? A prince? Someone…

— Josephine Tey

“Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole…

— Edward Gorey

I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better…

— Andy Warhol

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

— Berthe Morisot

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up…

— John Dyer

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso