Enough time Quote by S. Walden

“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you…

— John Berger

To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating,…

— James Elkins

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any…

— James Elkins

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

— Willem de Kooning

“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.”

— Raoul Vaneigem

“Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must…

— Thomas Gainsborough

“I paint as a means to make life bearable.”

— Van Goh

“Our life is our masterpiece, it's up to us on how we paint our story. It's up to us how we see the substances…

— Nathaniel E. Quimada

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…

— Brenda Ueland