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Painting Quotes
24 FAMOUS QUOTES · PAINTING
Painting Quotes
Read 24 famous painting quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”Leonardo da Vinci
“The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.”Leonardo da Vinci
“The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.”Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Pablo Picasso
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
Vincent van Gogh
“A picture is a poem without words.”
Horace
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
Simonides
“I paint flowers so they will not die.”
Frida Kahlo
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Jackson Pollock
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
Edward Hopper
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Edgar Degas
“I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
Henri Matisse
“Whoever wants to know something about me should look carefully at my pictures.”
Gustav Klimt
“I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.”
Edvard Munch
“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”
Mark Rothko
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
Jackson Pollock
“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”
Robert Henri
“Of all arts, the best is painting, which grants righteousness, wealth, pleasure and liberation.”
Vishnudharmottara Purana
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
Paul Cézanne
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
Claude Monet
“There is painting in poetry, and poetry in painting.”
Su Shi
“Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.”
Berthe Morisot