577 Quotes About Painting

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

It makes no sense to expect or claim to 'make the invisible visible', or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

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

The painting has a life of its own

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing authoritatively the unknown.::: Brett Whiteley :::