Painting Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

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 say you can not paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced…

— Melchor Lim

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 would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? If you hear a voice within saying ‘You are not a painter’…

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Katharine Hepburn

Painting is silent poetry.

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

— Barnett Newman

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— James Elkins

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

— Hans Hofmann

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

— Louise Bourgeois