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Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire. — John Dyer

Writing is like painting with watercolour, sometimes it's what you leave out at matters. — Haydn Jones

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past ... — Matthew Collings

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss. — John Berger

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. — Georges Braque

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting? — Neil Welliver

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. — Frank Delaney

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. — Caspar David Friedrich

...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by what lies within the frame. — Sarah Ganz Blyth

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. — Balthus

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. — Pablo Picasso

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world. — Kay WalkingStick

The latest fashion ... is absolutely necessary for a painting. It's what matters most. — Edouard Manet

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels. — Pablo Picasso

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. — Philip Guston

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy.
For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult. — Edgar Degas

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. — Philip Pearlstein

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it. — Michele Cassou

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh

I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be. — Julian Schnabel

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do. — Andy Warhol

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color. — Joseph Raffael

Acting, music, painting ... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all. — Billy Boyd

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. — Barnett Newman

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes. — Marion Milner

What painting is, is exactly what people see. — Robert Ryman

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. — Howard Hodgkin

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist — Leonid Afremov

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie. — Julian Schnabel

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery? — Christopher Willard

That's what all painting is about, its space and light occupied by human presences. — Leon Kossoff

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color. — Larry Poons

And if what they say is true
if every great painting is really a self-portrait
what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself? — Donna Tartt

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. — Peter Doig

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do? — Eric Maisel

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. — Gerhard Richter

Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got. — Joe Abercrombie

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. — Robert Henri

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful. — Will Cuppy

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn. — Guido Molinari

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry — Thomas Cole

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover. — Philip Guston

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

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure. — Stuart Pearson Wright

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there. — J. M. W. Turner

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

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

If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera, he would say again and again — Isabel Allende

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants. — Gary Hume

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting. — Philip Guston

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means. — Leonora Carrington

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. — Brassai

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. — Joan Miro

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected. — Georges Braque

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve. — Francis Bacon

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting. — Jackson Pollock

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. — Paul Bourget

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination. — Debasish Mridha

What it is about painting, how it can hit people exactly like music, and hit people so differently. — Peter Heller

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape. — Jules Olitski

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence. — Claude Monet

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping. — Robert Breault

Reflections, Musings and reviewing personal experiences through different angles of light... What is inside us is out there as well. (Zoltan Galos) — Z.J. Galos

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near. — Kazuaki Tanahashi

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light. — Claude Monet

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk. — Bill Gates

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees — Mark Rothko

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. — David Bellos

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting. — Robert Rauschenberg

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. — Damien Hirst

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe

A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror. — Debasish Mridha