“When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso
“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
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can”
Danny Kaye
“I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly . . . . If their painting doesn't improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldn't do anything!”
Claude Monet
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?”
David Gates
“Life is a work of art--if you don't like what you see, paint over it.”
zenshine
“My mother, who died recently, wanted you to have these two paintings of Pikes Peak.”
Charles Craig
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