A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
—Edmond de Goncourt
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
—Pablo Picasso
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
—Pierre Bonnard
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
—Robert Delaunay
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
—Plutarch
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
—Paul Cezanne
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
—Jackson Pollock
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
—Giotto di Bondone
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
—Charles Dudley Warner
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
—Edward Hopper
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
—René Magritte
Sunlight is painting.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
—Grandma Moses
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
—Corita Kent