Painting Quotes

Painting! Oh, what a magical word. It's not just coloring on canvas, but a whisper from the depths of the soul, a dance between brush and color, and a passion transformed into form. It is the secret language of light and shadow, where a single stroke can tell a story, and a subtle shade can create a whole world of emotions.

I know it well, this feeling of standing before an empty canvas, this beautiful challenge, as if you are about to give birth to something from nothing, to give soul to silent matter. It's an internal battle, a struggle with doubt, then that magical moment when colors begin to speak, lines begin to dance, and life is born.

Every brushstroke, every drop of color, is a part of the passion that ignites in the artist's heart. You will find here quotes on inspiration, artistic expression, and the beauty of creation with brush and color.

Quote by Pablo Picasso: Painting is just another way of keeping a diary....
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: We may call painting the grandchild of nature....
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no co...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells h...
Quote by Mark Twain: I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait devel...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from natur...
Quote by Winston Churchill: At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat....
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting fr...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts chang...
Quote by Winston Churchill: A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me th...
Quote by Winston Churchill: ... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like ...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: One must act in painting as in life, directly....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Painting is a jeu d'esprit....
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, bu...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are r...
Quote by Mark Twain: I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on ...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know ...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importanc...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results f...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as m...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground....
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should no...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a s...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an o...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting ther...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of da...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding....
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: One never knows what one is  going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite ...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences ...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.  What is the use of giving explanations, whe...
Quote by Winston Churchill: Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey....
Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting....
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance ...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, ...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enem...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in t...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. Wh...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against t...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defe...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to se...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark exce...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and ...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this se...
Quote by Pablo Picasso: While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas....
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores,...
Quote by Leonardo da Vinci: If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting....
Quote by Pablo Picasso: You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painti...