Facts Quote by Melchor Lim

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

— Vincent Van Gogh

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

Painting is silent poetry.

— Plutarch

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

— Plutarch

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk

Why talk when you can paint?

— Milton Avery

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

— Katharine Hepburn

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

— Leopold Stokowski