577 Quotes About Painting

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

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

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

Create with the heart; build with the mind.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.