Paint Quotes

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.