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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali

Use your own paint; colour your world — Israelmore Ayivor

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did. — Stefan Bachmann

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker ... I've gotten into some curious situations ... — Jamie Wyeth

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou

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

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. — Peter Paul Rubens

He best can paint them who shall feel them most. — Alexander Pope

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes. — Grace Jones

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy. — George Tooker

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light. — Ellsworth Kelly

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. — Julian Schnabel

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When one is painting one does not think. — Raphael

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. — Peter Greenaway

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting. — Allen Lacy

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. — Kelly Miller

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali

I'm not going to sit for some painting. That's so 1800s. I'm not doing that. — Jason Chaffetz

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner. — Billy Childish

My painting does not come from the easel. — Jackson Pollock

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half! — Frank Lloyd Wright

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value ... — Mark Tobey

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool. — Rachel Kushner

The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance. — Benjamin Franklin

The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art. — Charles Sovek

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. — Robert Rauschenberg

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel. — Damien Hirst

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn. — David Luiz

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. — Eve Best

I started painting when I was in high school. — James Best

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent. — Andrew Graham-Dixon

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. — John Erskine

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it. — William Hogarth

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind ... — Leon Battista Alberti

Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do. — Fennel Hudson

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy. — Colin Farrell

Every painting tells a story. — A.D. Posey

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting. — Albert Camus

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting. — James Rosenquist

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature ... Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley

she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books. — Kim Richardson

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people — Edgar Degas

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more. — Florence Welch

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

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. — Sara Sheridan

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. — Jack Levine

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something. — Joshua Greenberg

I FEEL NO SHAME ABOUT HAVING PAINTINGS BE AS GRANDIOSE AND RIDICULOUS AS POSSIBLE. — Laura Owens

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein

You are a beautiful lady. I won't deny that. But there's a difference between admiring a painting and wanting to buy it. — Jaima Fixsen

...love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. — Michelangelo

Dutch painting: daily life is enough. — Mason Cooley

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. — Quentin Blake

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
— Oprah Winfrey

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting. — Melissa Brown

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard. — George Eads

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal. — Marcel Duchamp

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

The big picture is that there is no big picture.
That's why we keep painting it. — Ronald Sukenick

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested. — E.L. Konigsburg