Painting Quote by Pierre Bonnard

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in…

— Man Ray

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

— Joyce Cary

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

— Gerhard Richter

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

— Man Ray

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

— Edward Hopper

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

— Marcel Duchamp

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

— Andy Warhol