Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
~ Balthus
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
~ Jackie Kennedy
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
~ Conrad Hall
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
~ Philip Guston
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
~ Robert Indiana
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
~ Jerry Saltz
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.
~ Mike Shinoda
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.
~ Minnie Driver
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
~ Andy Warhol
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.
~ Julian Schnabel
To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
~ Kenneth Branagh
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
~ Plutarch
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
~ William Blake
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.
~ Gene Luen Yang
For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
~ Billy Collins
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
~ Francisco Goya
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
~ Aeschylus
Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
~ Karl Pilkington
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
~ E. O. Wilson
