Apologizing Quote by Paul Valery

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon

Never ever apologize for doing aything right

— Anonymous

We don't have to apologize for who we are

— Pauline Marois

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

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very…

— Robert Rauschenberg

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've never done an anguished painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

— Barnett Newman

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

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

— Joyce Cary

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

— Francoise Cachin