Painting And Art Quotes

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

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.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The painting has a life of its own

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.