Painting Quote by John Yau

“I didn't want painting to be simply an act of emphasizing one color to do something to another color, like using red to intensify…

— Robert Rauschenberg

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

“You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter…

— William Carlos Williams

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

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“I wrote one line about every painting I saw and then did the same in the street: what sight isn't a painting.”

— Zach Savich

“It paints a picture, the things you refuse to say.”

— Cici Cummings

“I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.”

— Juan Miro

“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

“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman in distress,…

— Margaret Atwood

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

“I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked like, before…

— Kimberly Kinrade

“I had painted a lot of landscapes, had stood before many while they burned their remote beauty into my skin, but had never done…

— Peter Heller