| "It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself." »William Baziotes |
| "When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art." »Marc Chagall |
| "painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." »Simonides |
| "The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through." »Jackson Pollock |
| "Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts." »Blaise Pascal |
| "painting is just another way of keeping a diary." »Pablo Picasso |
| "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." »Sri da Avabhas |
| "A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world." »Edmond de Concourt |
| "We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. - from the Joy of painting" »Bob Ross |
| "painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings." »George Tooker |
| "painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "That's not painting, that's Paint-By-Numbers. That's therapy for the artistically challenged. That's what they prescribe for cretins in dayrooms." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong." »Harriet |
| "I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed." »Etty Hillesum |
| "In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir |
| "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." »Truman Capote |
| "Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly." »Mao Zedong |
| "I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" »Igor Stravinsky |
| "With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
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