Paint Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Cubism, Famous Artist

  Pablo Picasso (2001). “Picasso érotique”, Prestel Pub

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  A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Pain, Inspiration

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1913). “Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers”

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• 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

  Happiness, Happy, Inspiration

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• Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

  Lawren Harris

  Life, Art, Long

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• I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, 1997.

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

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Experience, Painting

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• Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Wall, Writing, Experience Yourself

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• 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.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Happy Friday, Needs

  Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”

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• Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

  Adolf Hitler

  Freedom, Blue, Sky

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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Art, Writing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

  Paul Klee

  Art, History, Painting

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• I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

  Andy Warhol

  Everyday, Trying, Turns

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Music, Peace

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc

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

  Frida Kahlo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Art, Happy Friday

  Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo (1992). “Frida Kahlo”, Rizzoli International Publications

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

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Differences, Painting

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• A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Peace, War, Sea

  1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.

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• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Color

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Artist, Famous Artist

  Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting”, Icon

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• Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

  Henri Rousseau

  Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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• I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Reality, Painting

  Elena Poniatowska, Frida Kahlo, Carla Stellweg (1992). “Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced”, Vintage

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• Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Color, Design

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• It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

  Jackson Pollock

  Long, Arriving, Matter

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Music, Art, World

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