“I was a painter, perhaps, but I am not any longer a painter. I didn't paint for many, many years - but at least two or three decades.”
Arnold Schoenberg
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“I'm an outdoor painter painting from life. All of my paintings are oil paintings. They are characterized by short brush strokes and bright light and use of complimentary colors.”
William North
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.”
Paul Cezanne
“You cannot paint the "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
