Painting Quotes

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.