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

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

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

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

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo

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

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
Josef Albers

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

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Mao Tse-Tung

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Norman Rockwell

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Norman Rockwell

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
Norman Rockwell

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
Norman Rockwell

Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Painting completed my life.
Frida Kahlo

My painting carries with it the message of pain.
Frida Kahlo

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David Bowie