Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old painting quotes, painting sayings, and painting proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.JOHN RUSKIN
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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.Alberto Giacometti
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Painting, the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.Ambrose Bierce
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All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.Bob Ross
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Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint you can on it.Danny Kaye
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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.Edgar Degas
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I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.Frida Kahlo
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Art is a line around your thoughts.Gustav Klimt
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Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.Kehinde Wiley
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.Leonardo da Vinci
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The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.Louis L'Amour
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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.Lucian Freud
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Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.Orhan Pamuk
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.Oscar Wilde
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A painting is never finished it simply stops in interesting places.Paul Gardner
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch
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Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.Rembrandt
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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
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I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.Vincent Van Gogh
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