Quotes by Painters - Page 5

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake
Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
William Blake
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
True friendship is self-love at second hand.
William Hazlitt
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt
When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
Pablo Picasso
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit either in business or reputation improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
William Hazlitt
It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
William Hazlitt
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
William Blake
I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.
Vincent van Gogh
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt
The cut worm forgives the plow.
William Blake
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
Henry Miller
The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.
Henry Miller
Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons
Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that we must not correct too much.
Eugène Delacroix
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
William Hazlitt
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt
Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
William Hazlitt
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
The soul of dispatch is decision.
William Hazlitt
Reason with most people means their own opinions.
William Hazlitt
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
Henry Miller
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
Michelangelo
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business is to create.
William Blake
I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Jean Dubuffet
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. 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
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh
There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
Henry Miller
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.
Jean Dubuffet
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.
William Hazlitt
Silence is one great art of conversation.
William Hazlitt
Do whatever you do intensely.
Robert Henri
I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent van Gogh
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.
Henry Miller
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
Wyndham Lewis
We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
William Hazlitt
Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.
Walter Sickert
Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night.
William Blake
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo
Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.
Edgar Degas
Art upsets science reassures.
Georges Braque
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.
Paul Klee
The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.
Paul Klee