93 result(s) for Quotes About Painting.
"The painter tries to master color, the musician to master sound, but the writer must master silence."
"The best artist has no identity."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"Painting is a mental thing. You must think three or four times about everything before you put it down."
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
"Art is the most beautiful deception of all."
"The essence of drawing is the line exploring space."
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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."
"Painting is a way of keeping a diary."
"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."
"The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen."
"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great obsession."
"The painter must not only paint what he sees; he must paint what he wishes to see."
"Art is the most beautiful and profound of all lies."
"There is no must in art because art is free."
"The painter tries to master color, while the poet tries to master words."
"The more I paint, the more I want to paint."
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see."
"Painting is a blind man's profession."
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
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"A painting is worth a thousand words."
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
"Painting is a means of self-enlightenment."
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better."
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
"I am not an artist; I am just a man who paints."
"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
"The painter tries to master color; it is the color that becomes the painter’s experience."
"Every mural painted is a victory of the artist over their own limitations."
"There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing."
"I want to paint without thinking. I want to paint for the sake of painting."
"The more I paint, the more I realize the importance of the journey over the destination."
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"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within itself."
"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint."
"To paint is to love again."
"Painting is a mental thing; it's not a question of how much color you put on it."
"A work of art is the visible sign of an inward experience."
"We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
"What an artist is trying to do is to make the world more beautiful."
"Art should be like a good wine, it should make you dizzy."
"Painting is a way of keeping the heart alive."
"Art is an adventure that never seems to end."
"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of concrete things."
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
"The painter tries to master color, but color must be the master of the painter."
"A painting is never finished—it simply stops in interesting places."
"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within it."
"Every artist was first an amateur."
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
"Colors are the smiles of nature."
"Creativity takes courage."
"The painter makes a space into which the viewer can enter."
"You don’t take a photograph, you make it."
"The beauty of a painting is in the eye of the beholder, just as art itself is a bridge to the soul."
"Art is the highest form of hope."
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a way that people can understand."
"Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what you can give, not what you can sell."
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things."
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
"Good painting is like good cooking; it can be done without a recipe, but it is imperative to practice."
"A picture is worth a thousand words, but can also ask a thousand questions."
"The painter tries to master color, but he must also learn to express the spirit of the subject."
"Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
"Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play."
"The more I paint, the more I realize how much more there is to learn."
"Every canvas is a journey all its own."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not possess."
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"Painting is mental. It's the expression of the imagination and the mind."
"A painting is a poem without words."
"The painter's task is to make the invisible visible."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting."
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
"Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God."
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
"The painter uses more colors than his brush can hold."
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings."
"In every work of art the spirit of the age is imprinted."
"The act of painting is in itself a profound and therapeutic experience."
"An artist is not a special kind of person; every person is a special kind of artist."
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."
"The artist reveals himself in his work."
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