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 is just another way of keeping a diary.Pablo Picasso
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.Jackson Pollock
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.Leonardo da Vinci
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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.Philip Guston
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.Maurice de Vlaminck
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.Salvador Dali
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.Edgar Degas
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.Max Ernst
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Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.Giotto di Bondone
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.Georges Braque
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.Paul Cezanne
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.Hedy Lamarr
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Painting is by nature a luminous language.Robert Delaunay
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.Pablo Picasso
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.Edgar Degas
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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.Gustave Courbet
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.A. S. Byatt
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.Vincent Van Gogh
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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.Edward Hopper
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.Balthus
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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.Georges Rouault
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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.Frank Stella
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Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.Kazimir Malevich
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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.Peter Doig
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Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.Niki de St. Phalle
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Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.Chuck Jones
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Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.Chuck Close
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Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.Leon Battista Alberti
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.Balthus