Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
Quentin Blake
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them... →
Maurice Blanchot
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
Giotto di Bondone
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
Brandon Boyd
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
Georges Braque
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
A. S. Byatt
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper