I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
Andy Warhol

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Andy Rooney