Quotes by Printmakers

Exactitude is not truth.
Henri Matisse
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.
William Blake
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.
William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
Truth exists. Only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
One thought fills immensity.
William Blake
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
William Blake
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Pablo Picasso
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
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
William Blake
I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.
Graham Sutherland
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
William Blake
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
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
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
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
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
William Blake
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
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
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
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
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
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
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
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.
William Blake
Life delights in life.
William Blake
Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
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
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
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
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
William Blake
The cut worm forgives the plow.
William Blake
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
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
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