Architecture Quote by J. M. W. Turner

A painting is not made to be sniffed.

— Rembrandt

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

— Robert Motherwell

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with…

— Pablo Picasso

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

— Kazimir Malevich

“She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good,…

— Michael Ignatieff

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

— Ad Reinhardt

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

— William Blake

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

— Mark Rothko

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir