Painting Quote by Iain Pears

“..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

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

— Peter Heller

“But do try to remember this: even the world’s not so black as it’s painted.”

— Radclyffe Hall

“I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I…

— Oscar Wilde

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

“I painted the lines and colours that affected my inner eye. I painted from memory without adding anything, without the details that I no…

— Ulrich Bischoff

“and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.”

— Ingo Walther

“He hesitated. "Don't you see? You're like a favorite painting. A found masterpiece, I loved both for things remembered and those newly discovered.”

— Amanda Gray

“He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the…

— John Fowles

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

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“She had never seen me draw–because not drawing and forgetting everything I knew about art, I thought, was the magic key to my becoming…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same…

— Luther E. Vann