Painting Quotes
See also
Photography Quotes
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Identity is theft of the self
Estee Martin
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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
Dan Rice
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An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Henri Matisse
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I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
Henri Matisse
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things
Edgar Degas
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I`ve been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.
Stephen Wright
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen
Leonardo da Vinci
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream
Vincent Van Gogh
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
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Color possesses me. I don`t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
Paul Klee
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The world today doesn`t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
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Are we to paint what`s on the face, what`s inside the face, or what`s behind it?
Pablo Picasso
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
Pablo Picasso
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
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Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Andy Ball
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
