Best Painting Sayings

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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes...… — Michelangelo
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. — George Nelson
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. — Georges Rouault
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance. — Neil Welliver
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;… — Unknown Author
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of… — Robert Rauschenberg
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. — Eugene Delacroix
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and… — E. J. Hughes
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music… — Michelangelo
One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. — Mac O'Grady
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the… — Alice Neel
I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect. — Harvey Fierstein
Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush… — Jerry Pate
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. — Mark Tobey
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well. — Claude Monet
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in… — Jack Handey
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown
President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. — Bob Hope
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who… — Benjamin Haydon
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or… — Susan Sontag

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