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Painting Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
- After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of…
- How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
- A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
- The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can…
- Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets…
- When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in…
- Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it…
- Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of…
- The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all…
- Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
- He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
- Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I…
- Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.
- Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do…
- Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a…
- The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the…
- Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true…
- Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and…
- The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
- Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat