Quotes about Painting, page 2

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Quote by Paul Cezanne about painting

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Quote by Paul Cezanne about painting

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Quote by Paul Cezanne about painting

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Quote by Paul Cezanne about painting

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

Quote by Edouard Manet about painting

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Quote by Edouard Manet about painting

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Quote by Edouard Manet about painting

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Quote by Edouard Manet about painting

Every good painter paints what he is.

Quote by Jackson Pollock about painting

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Quote by Jackson Pollock about painting

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Quote by Jackson Pollock about painting

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Quote by Vincent van Gogh about painting

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

Quote by Pierre Auguste Renoir about painting

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Quote by Henri Matisse about painting

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about painting