Painting Art Quotes

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

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

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

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

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

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

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

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

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

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

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The painting has a life of its own

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.