Age Quote by Pablo Picasso

I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first…

— Craig Thompson

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley

I have always loved painting and I did it from a very young age.

— Brad Mondo

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where…

— Alec Monopoly

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

— Milton Resnick

I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils and that…

— Paul Laffoley

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been…

— Sarah Ruhl

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

— Black Francis