Winston Churchill Quotes About Painting

• When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my
  first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the
  subject.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Years, Heaven

  Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center

• This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Art, New Beginnings

  "Thoughts and Adventures".

• Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

• Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Mean, Sea

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.140, Da Capo Press

• ... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

• Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Air, Appreciate

• I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Writing, Political

• Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

  Winston Churchill

  Journey, May, Painting

  Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

• Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

  Winston Churchill

  Long, Unity, Painting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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