470 Paint Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

You Will Say Silenced Voice Within Hear Cannot Then Means Paint

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Pablo Picasso

Me Took Raphael Lifetime Like Years Child Paint Four

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Maya Angelou

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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. Harriet Tubman

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

Alone Best Know Because Am Person Often Paint

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose. Anthony Hopkins

Music You Fear Lose Nothing Painting Philosophy Badly Put Nobody Because Without Arrest Jail Whether Acting Paint Things

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you. Claude Monet

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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

Costs Powder She Because Always Referred Ship Much Paint Keep

I paint flowers so they will not die. Frida Kahlo

Will Die Paint Flowers

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

Today World Sense Pictures Make Should Paint Why

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity. Paulo Coelho

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I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. Georgia O'Keeffe

Hate Cheaper Because Than Models Move Them Paint Flowers

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play. Erik Erikson

You Creativity Problems Word Free Whatever Young Enormous Says See Seeing Rises He Wrong Also Without How Surface His Close Child Artist Children Young Children Them Paint Play Things

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. Henri Matisse

Art Only Between Difference Paint Things

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. Honore de Balzac

Art Eye See Could Hand Paint

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. Alexis de Tocqueville

Time Old Society See Layer Through Colours Aristocratic Democratic Surface Covered American From Time To Time Breaking American Society Paint

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. Charles Dudley Warner

Great Picture Great Artist Small Artist Canvas Paint

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper

Art Side Sunlight House Wanted Paint

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