100+ Best Painting Quotes To Inspire You And Spark Your Creativity

Famous Painting Quotes

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1. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. – Abraham Maslow on Painting.
2. “Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.” – Banksy.
3. “Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.” – Orhan Pamuk.
4. “A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.” – Robert McKee.
5. “There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.” – Henri Matisse.
6. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. – Pablo Picasso.
   

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7. “If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.” – Salvador Dalí.
8. “Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.” – Rembrandt van Rijn.
9. “Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne.
10. “There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story.” – Piper Payne.
11. “If the world really looks like that, I will paint no more!” – Claude Monet.
12. “I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest.” – Bob Ross.
13. “Painting is the most beautiful of all arts.” – Paul Gauguin.
14. “I paint flowers so they will not die.” – Frida Kahlo.
    

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15. “Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.” – Philip Guston.
16. “I think each of us, sometime in our life, has wanted to paint a picture.” – Bob Ross.
17. “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” – Claude Monet.
18. “I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.” – Bob Ross.
19. “It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.” – Jackson Pollock.
20. “I decided that if I could paint that flower on a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” – Georgia O’ Keeffe.
21. “Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock.
    

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22. “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares; I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo.
23. “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a painting that speaks.” – Pablo Picasso.
24. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? – Frida Kahlo.
25. I really believe that if you practice enough, you could paint the ‘Mona Lisa’ with a two-inch brush. – Bob Ross.
26. To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life. – Viggo Mortensen.
27. All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. – Otto Dix.
28. I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move. – Georgia O’Keeffe.
29. Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. – Henri Rousseau.
30. I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. – Vincent Van Gogh.

Inspirational Quotes to Inspire Creativity for Painters And Artist (Inspirational Painting Quotes)

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31. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
32. 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
33. Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul. – Vincent Van Gogh.
34. “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
35. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe.
36. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.” – Maya Angelou.
37. A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful. – Andrew Schulz.
38. “Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” – Bruce Garrabrandt.
39. “Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” – James Russell Lowell.
40. “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” – Edwin Land.
41. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm.
42. “The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity.” – Dan Stevens.
43. “Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.” – Austin Kleon.
44. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath.
45. “One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” – Paulo Coelho.
46. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary – Pablo Picasso.
47. When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects. I think life is the same. – Hiroko Sakai.
48. I don’t paint dreams or nightmares; I paint my own reality. – Frida Kahlo.
49. The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard – Leonardo da Vinci.
50. A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. – Elaine de Kooning.
51. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso.
52. I love to look at art, I love to look at paintings, and I almost feel like the experience isn’t complete until I’ve made something of my own. – Cecily Brown.
53. Every canvas is a journey all its own. – Helen Frankenthaler.
54. Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. – Michelangelo.
55. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw.
56. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Funny Painting Quotes

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57. “If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth story to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.” – Eugène Delacroix.
58. “I say that good painters imitated nature, but that bad ones vomited it.” – Miguel De Cervantes.
59. “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo.
60. It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. – Pablo Picasso.
61. “The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.” – Vincent van Gogh.
62. “A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.” – – Ljupka Cvetanova.

Inspirational And Wonderful Quotes about Painting and Art

Here are some thoughtful and inspirational Painting quotes to motivate you to paint like the artist you believe yourself to be.

63. “Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.” – Pablo Picasso.
64. “Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” – Arthur Schopenhauer.
65. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” – Neil Gaiman.
66. “In the mind of every artist, there is a masterpiece.” – Kai Greene.
67. “You might as well ask an artist to explain his art or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.” – Rick Riordan.
68. “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde.
69. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher.
70. “Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.” – John Lubbock.
71. “To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.” – Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
72. “Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.” – William Somerset Maugham.
73. “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” – Paul Cezanne.
74. “Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt.
75. “Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.” – Pope John Paul II.
76. “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” – Oscar Wilde.
77. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; works of art to see your soul.” – George Bernard Shaw.
78. “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” – Chuck Klosterman.
79. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle.
80. “A blank canvas…has unlimited possibilities.” – Stephanie Perkins.
81. “The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.” – Madeleine L’Engle.
82. “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” Piet Mondrian.
83. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James McNeill Whistler.
84. “The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature.” – George Inness.
85. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte.
86. “Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world… it must fertilize the imagination.” – Joan Miró.
87. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore.
88. “A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.” – Joan Miró.
89. “Art is what you can get away with.” – Andy Warhol.
90. “It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color – not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.” – Henri Matisse.

Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Painting and Art

91. “The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the color of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
92. “Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity, and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
93. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
94. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
95. “The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.” – Leonardo da Vinci.

Edgar Degas Quotes on the Beauty of Art and Painting

96. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas.
97. “A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.” – Edgar Degas.
98. Beauty is a mystery, but no one knows it anymore. The recipes, the secrets are forgotten. – Edgar Degas.
99. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. – Edgar Degas.
100. People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes. – Edgar Degas.
101. I am a colorist with lines. – Edgar Degas.
102. One sees what one wants to see. It is false, and that falsity is the foundation of art. – Edgar Degas.
103. If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white. – Edgar Degas.
104. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas.
105. I assure you no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. – Edgar Degas.

Vincent Van Gogh Quotes on Painting and Art

106. “One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.” – Vincent Van Gogh.
107. I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. – Vincent Van Gogh.
108. 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.
109. 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. – Vincent Van Gogh.
110. Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. – Vincent Van Gogh.
111. “And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent Van Gogh.
112. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh.
113. “Art is to console those who are broken by life.” – Vincent Van Gogh.