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46 Inspirational Quotes About Painting & Life (POETRY)

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Top 10 Most Famous Quotes About Painting (BEST)

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. - Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. – Leonardo da Vinci
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. – Pablo Picasso
Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci. - Paul J. Meyer
Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum – the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci. – Paul J. Meyer
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. - Salvador Dali
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. – Salvador Dali
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. - Leonardo da Vinci
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. – Leonardo da Vinci
The universe is real but you can’t see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it. - Alexander Calder
The universe is real but you can’t see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it. – Alexander Calder
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

11 Inspirational Quotes About Painting

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life. - Michelangelo
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life. – Michelangelo
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. - Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. – Pablo Picasso
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you I am here to live out loud. - Emile Zola
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. – Emile Zola
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
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
Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. ― Orhan Pamuk
Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. ― Orhan Pamuk
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. - Neil Gaiman
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. – Neil Gaiman
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. - Salvador Dali
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. – Salvador Dali
We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents. - Bob Ross
We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents. – Bob Ross
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. ― Robert McKee
A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. ― Robert McKee
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. - Rembrandt
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. – Rembrandt

15 Deep Quotes About Painting that Will Make You Think

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
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
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. - Plutarch
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. – Plutarch
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams
Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. - Banksy
Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. – Banksy
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. - Marc Chagall
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. – Marc Chagall
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. - Philip Guston
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. – Philip Guston
A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner
A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places. – Paul Gardner
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ― Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ― Oscar Wilde
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. - Edgar Degas
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. – Edgar Degas
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. - Salvador Dalí
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. – Salvador Dalí
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. - Jackson Pollock
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. – Jackson Pollock
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. - Balthus
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. – Balthus
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor. - Giotto di Bondone
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor. – Giotto di Bondone

10 Wise Quotes that May Inspire You to be a Better Painter

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. – Jackson Pollock
I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo
I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. – Frida Kahlo
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. – Michelangelo
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. - Alberto Giacometti
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. – Alberto Giacometti
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect. - Alexander Calder
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect. – Alexander Calder
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Émile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Émile Zola
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. - Kurt Vonnegut
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. – Kurt Vonnegut
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. - Edgar Degas
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. – Edgar Degas
Create with the heart; build with the mind. ― Criss Jami
Create with the heart; build with the mind. ― Criss Jami
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ― Edward Hopper
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ― Edward Hopper

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