PAINTING

Related Subjects: Art, Color, Sculpture

1. The love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many.—WASHINGTON ALLSTON, Lectures on Art

2. What has reasoning to do with the art of painting?—BLAKE
   

3. I can look for a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
   

4. Nobody will ever know the harm that chemistry has done to the art of painting. Look how the color has cracked in that canvas; what do you suppose they could have put into it?—DEGAS
   

5. There are only two styles of portrait painting, the serious and the smirk.—DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby
   

6. Pictures must not be too picturesque.—EMERSON, Essays
   

7. Painting is the language of the uncertainties, the outbursts and retreats of the heart.—ELIE FAURE
   

8. One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.—HAWTHORNE, The Marble Faun
   

9. The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
   Is the best picture.—LONGFELLOW, Michael Angelo
   

10. I am not a painter.—MICHELANGELO
    

11. Modern painting is uninteresting because there is no innocency left in it.—GEORGE MOORE, Ave
    

12. The dreary, bare walls of today are due to intellectual prigs writing and writing that painting is too difficult to be understood by any but the writer and his tiny clique of "superior persons." For the complete enjoyment of any art, knowledge of its works or backstage is dangerous. Pictures are painted to be looked at, not explained.—C. R. W. NEVINSON
    

13. He best can paint them who shall feel them most.—POPE, Eloisa to Abelard
    

14. On painting and fighting look afar off.—Proverb
    

15. Painters an poets hae liberty to lie.—Proverb
    

16. A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.—SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Discourses on Painting
    

17. No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.—RUSKIN, Modern Painters
    

18. They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.—RUSKIN, Modern Painters
    

19. Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive' language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself is nothing.—RUSKIN, True and Beautiful
    

20. Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.—JOHN SARGENT
    

21. Wrought he not well that painted it?—SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens
    

22. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.—SIMONIDES, Plutarch: Lives
    

23. To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp
    

24. Good painting is like good cooking: it can be tasted, but not explained.—VLAMINCK, On Painting
    

25. A life passed among pictures makes not a painter—else the policeman in the National Gallery might assert himself. As well allege that he who lives in a library must needs be a poet.—WHISTLER, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

26. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.—OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray