Painters Quotes

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tong...

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then ...

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he...

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a b...

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For...

When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occ...

A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells h...

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People...

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his por...

Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted... used to...

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...