Ifs 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 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

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

— Joyce Cary

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Why talk when you can paint?

— Milton Avery

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too

— Rembrandt

I paint when I cannot photograph.

— Man Ray

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

— Sara Genn

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

— Grayson Perry

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

— Barnett Newman