Paint Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Cubism, Famous Artist

  Pablo Picasso (2001). “Picasso érotique”, Prestel Pub

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  A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Pain, Inspiration

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1913). “Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers”

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• If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Happy, Inspiration

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• Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

  Lawren Harris

  Life, Art, Long

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• I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, 1997.

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• The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

  Norman Rockwell

  Life, Moving On, Travel

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 251), 1978.

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• When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Moving, Painting

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• I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

  Cy Twombly

  Inspirational, Time, Art

  "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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• You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

  Carly Simon

  Canvas, Feels, Knows

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• I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Oil, House, Would Be

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Cosmos Expert Neil deGrasse Tyson On Cosmetology". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 24, 2015.

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• A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Artist, Canvas

  Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.90, tredition

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• Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

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• Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Dabs, Steps

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• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Experience, Painting

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• It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

  Jackson Pollock

  Long, Arriving, Matter

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• I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

  Andy Warhol

  Everyday, Trying, Turns

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• In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

  John McLaughlin

  Way, Sound, Use

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• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

  Paul Klee

  Art, History, Painting

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• The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Happy Friday, Needs

  Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”

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• If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Creative, Would Be

  Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated

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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Carpe Diem, Thinking

  In John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60

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• Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

  Adolf Hitler

  Freedom, Blue, Sky

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• Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

  John Lubbock

  Song, Spring, Flower

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• When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

  Ellen Key

  Creating, Imagination, Doe

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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