(962 quotes found)
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
Vincent van Gogh
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child”
Pablo Picasso
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream”
“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint”
Rene Magritte
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
Michelangelo
“I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.”
Stephen Wright
“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”
