#painting

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#colored #happened #might #painted #painting

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#painting #thoughts

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#as far as #concerned #copying #easy #far

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#every #every man #experimental #get #i

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#blind #feels #himself #man #painting

One must act in painting as in life, directly. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#directly #life #must #painting

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#beautiful #horror #i #must #painting

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#does #just #opposite #painting #particular

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#comment #make #painter #painting #sculpture

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#because #changes #destroying #etc #fear