577 Quotes About Painting

Life is like a painting; make yours a masterpiece.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.

To paint one must forget everything else. Where you live, who you know, what you eat, when to sleep. The landscape of the canvas becomes your only reality. The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

The painter folded back the heavy curtain, standing in the stream of light breaking through the damp thickness of the room. He paused, still holding the drape in his hand as he considered with suspicion that a world could exist outside the window.

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

The genius of clouds is not only in their ability to create rain, but also in their ability to create ingenious paintings that present a different picture to every eye that looks!

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!

Elle n'avait jamais vraiment aimé les impressionnistes. Elle trouvait qu'ils manquaient d'outrance, de passion. Seul Renoir, parfois, savait traiter un corps de femme avec ce manque de respect qui lui était dû.