Life Quote by Henri Matisse

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them…

— Liza Campbell

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...

— LeRoy Neiman

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some…

— Chuck Close

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who has not…

— George Santayana

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

— Pablo Picasso

In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting,…

— Asger Jorn

Painting taught literature to describe.

— Orhan Pamuk

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up…

— Siri Hustvedt