Painting Quotes

It’s a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

The real subject of every painting is light.

Sunlight is painting.

I’ve done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don’t want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that’s enough.

I think I’m a much better painter than an actor.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!