Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and
exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything
else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many
solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooker
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the
moment that you finished it.
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar,
Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited
it.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there
are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of
speech.
Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is
finished, the subject reaveals itself.
William Baziotes
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