“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 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
“You cannot paint the "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
Jackson Pollack
“I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.”
Chuck Close
“[But, when asked by Tillamook County Deputy District Attorney Brian Erickson about threats he allegedly made, Painter replied,] Absolutely not. I told them I need that radio; go get that radio. ... This is (expletive); let's get out of here.”
Thomas White
