Quotations About Paintings

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso


Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch


Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~Leonardo da Vinci


For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ~Georges Rouault


As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. ~Pablo Picasso


The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso


I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. ~Henri Matisse


Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt


I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse


Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ~Oscar Wilde


Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ~Edgar Degas


It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ~Henry Moore


Pictures must not be too picturesque. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. ~Pablo Picasso



The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso


I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. ~Henri Matisse


One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ~Mark Stevens



Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt


A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~Michelangelo