Paint Quotations | Page 5

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

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

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.