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

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

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Albert Camus

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

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

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens

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

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh