Painters Quotes

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.

~ Georges Rouault

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

~ William Hazlitt

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

~ Grandma Moses

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

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

~ Salvador Dalí

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

~ Marc Chagall

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

~ John Ruskin

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

~ Pablo Picasso

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

~ Peter Paul Rubens

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

~ Auguste Renoir

Some day they will know what I mean.

~ Tom Thomson

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

~ John Ciardi

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.

~ Ivan Eyre

It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the mining spirit without making or creating, and therefore anything that is creative they do not understand.

~ Theresa Sjoquist