Quotes by Painters - Page 2

The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
Henry Miller
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.
Natalie Goldberg
There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.
Natalie Goldberg
The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
William Hazlitt
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
Henry Miller
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
William Hazlitt
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.
Max Jacob
If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.
Eugène Delacroix
All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.
Marc Chagall
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
William Hazlitt
If it is to be It is up to me.
William H. Johnson
The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.
William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
William Blake
The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
Nicholas Hilliard
Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.
Vincent van Gogh
a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E.E. Cummings
The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Bennett
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Pablo Picasso
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugène Delacroix
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
John Berger
If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.
Henry Miller
To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.
Wilhelm Busch
I mix them with my brains sir.
John Opie
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
Milton Avery
I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent van Gogh
For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
William Hazlitt
I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.
Grandma Moses
All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.
Marc Chagall
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.
Peter Paul Rubens
A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
Auguste Renoir
Some day they will know what I mean.
Tom Thomson
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
Jean Baptiste Corot
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
People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.
Wyndham Lewis
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
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
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
Pablo Picasso
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
William Hazlitt
Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.
William Hazlitt
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
Life is what we make it always has been always will be.
Grandma Moses
Time is a river without banks.
Marc Chagall
I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses