Paint Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old paint quotes, paint sayings, and paint proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Paint the essential character of things. Camille Pissarro
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. Danny Kaye
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. Charles Dudley Warner
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
Paint as you see and be accurate in your drawing: the whole secret of your art is there. William Bouguereau
All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind. Bob Ross
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Degas
To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well! Mehmet Murat ildan
Paint from the inside out. George De Groat
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. Leopold Stokowski
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
Painting is another form of thinking. Gerhard Richter
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. Willem de Kooning
Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel. Ben Shahn
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso
Your painting is a measure of your mind. Millard Sheets
Paint what you see, not what you know. Charles Webster Hawthorne
Painting is not about what you see, its about what you don't see. Bernd Haussmann
Painting is like child birth you forget how hard it is until you do it again. Anonymous
Dazzle like an Impressionistic painting in which every brush stroke tells and contains something germane to the whole. V. S. Pritchett
I paint what I see. E. B. White
What do you paint when you paint on a wall? Do you paint just anything at all? Will there be any doves, or a tree in fall? Or a hunting scene, like an English hall? E. B. White
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. Rembrandt van Rijin
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian
All art is an imitation of nature. Seneca
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. Henri Matisse
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. Henri Matisse