Quotes by Painters - Page 4

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
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.
William Hazlitt
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
We work not only to produce but to give value to time.
Eugène Delacroix
We create our fate every day we live.
Henry Miller
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
Like ships men flounder time and time again.
Henry Miller
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
William Hazlitt
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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 wanted to say something about the universe. There's God angels plants... and horseshit.
Zero Mostel
Rests always sound well.
Arnold Schoenberg
I thank You God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
E.E. Cummings
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
William Blake
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
William Hazlitt
A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
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 ought to be.
William Hazlitt
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home . . . lovers alone wear sunlight.
E.E. Cummings
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
Vincent van Gogh
In our life there is a single color as on an artist's palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
William Hazlitt
Life as it is called is for most of us one long postponement.
Henry Miller
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
Laurence Ferlinghetti
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
William Hazlitt
All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
William Hazlitt
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.
William Hazlitt
Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
Vincent van Gogh
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller
The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
E.E. Cummings
It is no rest to be idle.
Paul Peel
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
William Hazlitt
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
William Hazlitt
I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.
Ida Applebroog
If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.
William Blake
Life delights in life.
William Blake
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
Grandma Moses
We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri
General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.
William Blake
God is really 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