Kind Quote by Roy Lichtenstein

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call…

— Pablo Picasso

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

— Laura Owens

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think…

— Laura Owens

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time…

— M. F. Husain

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl