577 Quotes About Painting

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Never paint your wife or your mother.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

What has reasoning to do with painting?

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning ...