Painting Quotes

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

Politics, War, Writing

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

Fire, Door, National

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

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

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr

Good, Friend, Company

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce

Art, Weather, Critic

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

Government, Science, Greatest

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

Difficult, Easy

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

Himself, Seen, Blind

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

Time, Food, Enough

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

Poetry, Silent, Speaks

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

Another, Keeping, Diary

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

Great, May, Cannot

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

Life, Act, Directly

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

Minute, Infinitely

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson

Economic, Gain, Cook

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

Beautiful, Problems, Speak

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

Whole, Opposite, Detail

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

Thoughts, Eloquence

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

Best, Painter, Sculpture

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

Music, Poetry, Human

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh

Faith, Opinion, Public

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

Life, Picture, Sum

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Paul Cezanne

God, Art, Judge

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh

Life, God, Power

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

Two, Serious, Portrait

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

Life, Fear, Making

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

Love, Money, Friend

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John Ruskin

Done, Reputation, Written

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

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