Quotes about painters and painting

"Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory."

Bacon, Francis on painters and painting   

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

Balzac, Honore De on painters and painting   

"Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up."

Cervantes, Miguel De on painters and painting   

"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on painters and painting
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"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."

Dali, Salvador on painters and painting   

"Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention."

Hamerton on painters and painting   

"Sunlight is painting."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on painters and painting   

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"Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."

Joubert, Joseph on painters and painting   

"I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record."

Lautrec, Henri De Toulouse on painters and painting   

"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on painters and painting   

"What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire."

Pascal, Blaise on painters and painting   

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Picasso, Pablo on painters and painting   

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

Picasso, Pablo on painters and painting   

"I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black."

Renoir, Pierre Auguste on painters and painting   

"Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh."

Rouault, Georges on painters and painting   

"In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting."

Ruskin, John on painters and painting   

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."

Sargent, John Singer on painters and painting   

"Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting."

Simonides on painters and painting   

"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

Van Gogh, Vincent on painters and painting   

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."

Van Gogh, Vincent on painters and painting
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

Wilde, Oscar on painters and painting