Quotes by Painters - Page 28

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.
Rabih Alameddine
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.
Shan Sa
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
Henry Miller
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake
In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Chakravyuh mein ghusne se pehle,Before entering the circle of deceit,kaun tha mein aur kaisa tha,twho I was, and what I was,yeh mujhe yaad hi na rahega.tI would not remember.Chakravyuh mein ghusne ke baad,tAfter entering the circle of deceit,mere aur chakravyuh ke beech,t(there was) between me and the circle,sirf ek jaanleva nikat’ta thi,tonly a deathly intimacyiska mujhe pata hi na chalega.tthat I never realised.
Dilip Chitre
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.
Vincent van Gogh
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
Georg Baselitz
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
William Blake
Rafael?””Yeah?”„Do we all have monsters?”„Yes.”„Why does God give us so many monsters?”„You want to know my theory?”„Sure.”„I think it’s other people who give us monsters. Maybe God doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.
William Blake
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
For every thing that lives is Holy.
William Blake
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
Vincent van Gogh
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything
Henry Miller
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
Henry Miller
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...
Natalie Goldberg
There must be repressed truth even in lies.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.
Eugène Carrière
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
Gao Xingjian
I willingly accept Cassandra's fateTo speak the truth, although believed too late.
Anne Killigrew
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
William Blake
When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
Vincent van Gogh
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
Henry Miller
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
William Blake
Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.
Henry Miller
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
Henry Miller
A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")
Erik Pevernagie
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....
René Magritte
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent van Gogh
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
William Blake
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent van Gogh
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Vincent van Gogh
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent van Gogh
Feet, what do I need them forIf I have wings to fly.
Frida Kahlo
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
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
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such
Henry Miller
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Bob Ross
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso