577 Quotes About Painting

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

I think we've got the transition set up pretty seamless. Obviously, weather plays a role in the painting of the field, but that's something we can't control.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.