Painting quotes

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◆ I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

- Vincent van Gogh100

◆ Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

- John Ruskin100

◆ Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

- Wilhelm Bode99

◆ Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir99

◆ One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga answered, The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult

- Marc Chagall99

◆ Vermont's a place where barns come painted / Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stout boys in freckles, Are highest forms of art.

- Robert Tristram Coffin99

◆ I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, Well, what do you love most? That's how I started painting money.

- Andy Warhol99

◆ Life obliges me to do something, so I paint

- Rene Magritte99

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

- Rembrandt99

◆ It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

- Vincent Van Gogh99

◆ Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

- Simonides99

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

- Leonardo Da Vinci99

◆ Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

- Pablo Picasso99

◆ Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things

- Edgar Degas99