Painting Quotes

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguish tightens your throatAs if you were never to be loved againIf you lived in the old days you would enter a monasteryYou are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayerYou make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter cracklesThe sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your lifeIt's a painting hanging in a dark museumAnd sometimes you go and look at it close up

Guillaume Apollinaire

Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.

Nigel Tomm

The painting has a life of its own

Jackson Pollock

How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.'(Amber)'Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you ever seen something so beautiful you feel like crying? When I see you, I feel that way. I feel like the deepest part of me understands something vital about you.'(Virgil Daly)

Christina Westover

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

W. Somerset Maugham

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters

Henri Matisse

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jackson Pollock

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

J.K. Rowling

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Danny Kaye

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

Blaise Pascal

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself

Benjamin Franklin

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

Albert Camus

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world

Samuel Johnson