Quotes

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Hedy Lamarr

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Edward Moore

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Oscar Wilde

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Khalil Gibran

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

Abraham Maslow

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Joshua Reynolds

All art is immortal.

Oscar Wilde

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Art is not a study of positive reality; it is a search for ideal truth.

George Sand

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

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

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin

If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint - and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas

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 just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.
Stanley Spencer