Best Painting Quotations
2506 Painting quotes by 1181 unique authors
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything…
— Pablo Picasso
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of…
— Igor Stravinsky
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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
— Heinrich Heine
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who…
— Tertullian
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Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint…
— Brad Pitt
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The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to…
— Norman Rockwell
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Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
— Winston Churchill
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
— Joseph Joubert
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
— Alexander Pope
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I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to…
— John Ruskin
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
— Maurice Blanchot
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
— Robert Burns
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Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
— Alexander Eliot
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Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
— James Ellis
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The mind paints before the brush.
— James Ellis
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
— Blaise Pascal
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So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
— Pharrell Williams
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
— Edvard Munch
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every…
— William Morris Hunt
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The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
— Mark Rothko
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