Artist Quote by James Rosenquist

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and…

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

— Robert Henri

I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are, it's an…

— Pittacus Lore

The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting…

— James Elkins

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

— Paula Fox

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory,…

— Philip Guston

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

Memories are the most beautiful pictures our minds can paint, and nothing can ever erase them.

— Anonymous

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is;…

— Philip Guston

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them,…

— Joan Mitchell