Best Painting Proverbs

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With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in… — Belinda Carlisle
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of… — John Green
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so… — Paul Cezanne
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great… — Claude Monet
Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious. — Van Cliburn
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the… — Helen Fisher
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner. — Rajneesh
The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good. — Gregory of Nyssa
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which… — John Calvin
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so. — Hans Hofmann
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. — William Shakespeare
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much… — Elizabeth Bowen
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Geometry is the foundation of all painting. — Albrecht Durer
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. — Nigel Dennis
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly… — Susan Sontag
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a… — Berenice Abbott
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less… — Susan Sontag
I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot. — George Bernard Shaw
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make… — Edward Weston
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what… — Wynn Bullock
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.… — John Berger
Language is much closer to film than painting is. — Sergei Eisenstein
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to… — Madeleine L'Engle
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Unknown Author

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