A painter does a painting, and he paints it and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. - Joni Mitchell
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. - Samuel Johnson
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest. - Calvin Coolidge
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh
Painting dissolves the forms at its command … it melts them into colour. - Alexander Eliot
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
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. - Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is silent poetry. - Plutarch
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will of his imagination and – with a single glance – have his soul invaded by the most profound recollections; no effort of memory, everything is summed up in one instant. A complete art which sums up all the others and completes them. Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses: harmonious colours correspond to the harmonies of sound. But in painting a unity is obtained which is not possible in music, where the accords follow one another, so that the judgment experiences a continuous fatigue if it wants to reunite the end with the beginning. The ear is actually a sense inferior to the eye. The hearing can only grasp a single sound at a time, whereas the sight takes in everything and simultaneously simplifies it at will. - Paul Gauguin
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. - Washington Allston
The painter with an original vision is always opposed by the schools. That is, at first. But when he wins out, then the schools merely take over his technique and use it as a club to put down the next creator. And so it goes. - Horace Holley
The painter's work will be of little merit if he takes the painting of others as his standard, but if he studies from nature he will produce good fruits. - Leonardo da Vinci
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