Best Painting Thoughts
2506 Painting quotes by 1181 unique authors
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Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy -…
— Rajneesh
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When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.
— Max Beckmann
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Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they breathe and they…
— Rajneesh
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Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by meditation. If somebody…
— Rajneesh
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Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick,…
— Rajneesh
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Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a…
— Rajneesh
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She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other…
— Rajneesh
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Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas…
— Rajneesh
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and…
— Michelangelo
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Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
— Caryl Churchill
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Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
— John Constable
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I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
— Euan Uglow
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Each painting evolves freely and independently.
— Fernando Araujo Perdomo
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I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will…
— George Frederic Watts
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For me, painting is like meditation.
— Janet Fish
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Abstraction is an esoteric language.
— Eric Fischl
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When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
— Fernando Botero
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The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.
— Susan Rothenberg
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us…
— Morris Graves
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I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.
— Arshile Gorky
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I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
— Alexej von Jawlensky
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