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

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus

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

Painting completed my life.
Frida Kahlo

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

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo

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

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

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

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.
Gustav Klimt

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
Gustav Klimt

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
Gustav Klimt

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

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

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
Andre Malraux

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Andre Malraux

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

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

Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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