Best Painting Proverbs
2506 Painting quotes by 1181 unique authors
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
— Van Cliburn
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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
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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
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The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.
— Gregory of Nyssa
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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
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You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
— Hans Hofmann
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I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
— Albrecht Durer
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Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
— Nigel Dennis
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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
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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
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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
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
— Sergei Eisenstein
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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
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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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