Painting Quote by Clarice Lispector

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work,…

— Steven Pressfield

“Most artists can't draw.”

— Roy Simmons

“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to paint is…

— Galib Mammadov

“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I could say…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.”

— Irving Stone

“I'm an artist who draws with a brush instead of a arms.”

— Mohamad Aidil Uzaimi

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

“We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.”

— John Berger