Berthe Morisot Quotes

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

My painting does not come from the easel.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Oh, I paint all the time.

The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.

If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.

I paint paintings of people.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.