577 Quotes About Painting

Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks

This is how he came out: he floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his head. In his hand was the open suitcase and out of it spilled a whole sky of stars.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself several times by these great teachers and reading wordless but eloquent advice for himself in their paintings.

And if it is true that the image still has the function of speaking, of transmitting something consubstantial with language, we must recognize that it already no longer says the same thing; and that by its own plastic values painting engages in an experiment that will take it farther and farther from language, whatever the superficial identity of the theme.

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.