painting

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.

Painting is closely related to gardening but closer still is poetry.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

A painting is never finished-it simply stops in interesting places.

-Picasso's Wife: In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!