If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call…

“Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting”

— Leonardo da Vinci

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

— Leonardo da Vinci

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who…

— Stanley Tucci

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or…

— Shauna Niequist

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

— August Strindberg

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

— Wayne Dyer

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp