PAINTING QUOTES IV

quotations about painting

Painting quote

Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this.

FRIDA KAHLO

The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas


I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Johnsonian Miscellanies

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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

HORACE

Ars Poetica

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If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

PHILIP GUSTON

attributed, Twentieth-Century Artists on Art


I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

PABLO PICASSO

attributed, Cubism: a history and an analysis

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A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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The painter with an original vision is always opposed by the schools. That is, at first. But when he wins out, then the schools merely take over his technique and use it as a club to put down the next creator. And so it goes.

HORACE HOLLEY

Pictures

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The painter's work will be of little merit if he takes the painting of others as his standard, but if he studies from nature he will produce good fruits.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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