“I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.”
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) Armatian
As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 61
“But of course these pictures are not shocking; good painting never is.”
Some Notes on Caravaggio (1956)
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British artist 1927–1983Related quotes
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977) British conductor
Addressing an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times (11 May 1967); often this is quoted without the humorous final sentence.
Context: A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Jan Mankes (1889–1920) Dutch painter
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek<br><br>(original Dutch: citaat van Jan Mankes, in het Nederlands:) Schilderen is.. ..nooit een afbeelding geven der stoffelijke zaken, maar een psychische functie, een uiten hoe zijn geest [van de kunstenaar] reageert ten opzichte der dingen. Dat is dus een heel verschil met: schilderen is de schoonheid der dingen laten zien.<br><br>Quote of Jan Mankes in a letter to his maceneas A.A.M. Pauwels in The Hague; as cited by J.R. de Groot in 'De bekoring van het gewone - Het werk van Jan Mankes https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ons003199001_01/_ons003199001_01_0014.php', p. 102 <br class="br">undated quotes
Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) Armenian-American painter
quote of 1948
1942 - 1948
Source: Movements in art since 1945, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson 1975, p 32
William H. Rehnquist (1924–2005) Chief Justice of the United States
On writing. <br class="br"> Booknotes http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1107 television interview (July 5, 1992)
“A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.”
Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter
As quoted in 'Mark Rothko', Dorothy Seiberling in LIFE magazine (16 November 1959), p. 82
1950's
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist
p, 125
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Address to the Harvard Alumni Association to the Class of '61, in Speeches (1913), p. 96.
1910s
Roger Federer (1981) Swiss tennis player
After defeating Andy Roddick in the Australian Open 2007 semi-final. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/6297737.stm