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Quotations
 | A painter's career is like a prostitute's career: in the beginning he does it for his own pleasure, then for the pleasure of others and, finally, for the money. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 6 likes |
 | I dream my painting and I paint my dream. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 5 likes |
 | Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 5 likes |
| 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, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
| Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
| What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
| One must act in painting as in life, directly. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
| Making sketches is like planting seeds to grow pictures. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
| The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
| I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 2 likes |
| You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeni Zamyatin, 1884-1937, Russian writer 2 likes |
 | I paint flowers so they will not die. — Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, Mexican painter 2 likes |
| 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, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | We do not buy paintings because we love them; we love them because we buy them. — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 2 likes |
| It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | Painting is a nice way to put a happy buck in your pocket, and to make good things happen in your heart. |
| All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind. |
| If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is. |
| You have to allow the paint to break to make it beautiful. |
 | A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. |
| I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. |
 | The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. |
| A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself. |
 | You have the brushes, you have the colors, paint the paradise and go inside. |
 | Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. |
 | Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. |
 | Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. |
 | When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can’t help wishing the iconoclasts had won. |
 | Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad. |
| Painting is the visible side of the iceberg of my thinking. |
| The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert of time and space. |
| I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appearing on my canvas. |
 | You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. |
| They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. |
| I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. |
| I’m not sick. I am broke. But I'm happy to live as long as I can paint. |
 | The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
| A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. |
| Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. |
| I think each of us, sometime in our life, has wanted to paint a picture. |
| I can’t think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul. |
| Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel’s wing. |
Personal Stories
| When I was a child, my mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
| The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
| Now I am working with another model, a postman in a blue uniform with gold trimmings, a big, bearded face, very Socratic. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 2 likes |
| The sunflower is mine, in a way. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 2 likes |
| Here, under a stronger sun, I have found true what Pissarro said, and what Gauguin wrote to me as well, the simplicity, the lack of color, the gravity of great sunlight effects. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 2 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Van Gogh would've sold more than one painting if he'd put tigers in them. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 2 likes |
 | Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
 | Beethoven was so deaf that all his life he believed he was painting. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 2 likes |
| The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. |
