Inspirational Quotes on Painting

“When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too.”

“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.”

“Trying to be like Christ . . . is more like painting a portrait than like obeying a set of rules.”

“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model")”

“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”

“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed that he ever realised how the roof of the Sistine Chapel might be made into an awful imitation of a divine drama that could only be acted in the heavens.”