(962 quotes found)
“I don't paint to live, I live to paint.”
Willem de Kooning
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking”
Jean de la Bruyere
“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.”
Pablo Picasso
“I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.”
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting”
Abraham Maslow
“Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.”
Berenice Abbott
“The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a "box" around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?”
Frank Zappa
“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
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
