“In old times, men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times, they used the objects of faith that they might show their powers of painting.”
“Sunlight is painting.”
“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
“Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.”
“I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.”
“I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.”
“Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.”
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”
“I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.”
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
“A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.”
“The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”
“Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.”
“Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.”
“Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.”
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
“What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.”
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”