Painting Quotes

"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject. But then I shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colours upon it, and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye."

"I never paint dreams or nightmares I paint my own reality"

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream"

"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting"

"I paint flowers so they will not die"

"Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them"

"The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas"

"I am not sick I am broken But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint"

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light"

"The great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government"

"I was born to play football just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint"

"Painting completed my life"

"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."

"Sunlight is painting"