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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Painting completed my life. -- Frida Kahlo
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment. -- John Olsen
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. -- Pablo Picasso
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. -- Jackson Pollock
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. -- Edgar Degas
Painting is very interesting. -- Sam Waterston
Painting demands an intelligent model. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Painting taught literature to describe. -- Orhan Pamuk
Painting is a jeu d'esprit. -- Pablo Picasso
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Painting is the subject of painting. -- Joseph Raffael
Painting and writing are solitary arts. -- Conrad Hall
Painting is a state of being. -- Jackson Pollock
Painting is an investigation of being. -- Squeak Carnwath
Painting is more important than art. -- Wayne Thiebaud
Painting is another form of thinking. -- Gerhard Richter
Painting is by nature a luminous language. -- Robert Delaunay
Painting, like passion, is a living voice. -- Barnett Newman
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. -- Peter Doig
Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies. -- Pierre Soulages
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul. -- Niki de St. Phalle
Painting is with me but another word for feeling. -- John Constable
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. -- Salvador Dali
Painting is something that takes place among the colors. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. -- Grandma Moses
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit. -- Caryl Churchill
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. -- Plutarch
Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation. -- John Currin
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. -- Ad Reinhardt
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head. -- Paul Cezanne
A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots. -- Ray Wilkins
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. -- Georges Braque
Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle. -- Winston Churchill
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. -- Rembrandt
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. -- Cleo Moore
Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole. -- Igor Babailov
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding. -- Pablo Picasso
Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. -- Antoni Tapies
Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. -- Orhan Pamuk
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. -- Robert Smithson
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color. -- Alexander Eliot
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. -- Romare Bearden
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. -- Leon Battista Alberti
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. -- Max Beckmann
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. -- Balthus
Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment. -- Sam Francis
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting. -- Adolph Gottlieb
Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. -- Dianna Agron
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. -- Paul Cezanne
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. -- Francis Bacon
Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting. -- Andrew McDermott
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. -- Pierre Loti
Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting. -- Peter Greenaway
Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. -- John Marin
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation -- Mary Morrissey
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had -- Francis Bacon
Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. -- Tony Curtis
Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world. -- Jeffrey Smart
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting. -- Jackson Pollock
Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey. -- Winston Churchill
Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings. -- Danny Fox
Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. -- Henry Moore
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. -- Philip Guston
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. -- J. M. W. Turner
Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. -- George Grosz
Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable. -- William McGregor Paxton
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. -- Philip Guston
Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives. -- Pierre Soulages
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. -- Balthus
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. -- Philip Guston
Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it. -- Michele Cassou
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment. -- Sylvester Stallone
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Painting is silent poetry. -- Plutarch
I paint my own reality. -- Frida Kahlo
Painting is a strange business. -- J. M. W. Turner
Painting is saying "Ta" to God. -- Stanley Spencer
Painting, I think it's like jazz. -- Brian Eno
Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation. -- El Greco
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.... -- Jackson Pollock
Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years. -- David Hockney
Painting can feign reality without having seen it. -- Roland Barthes
The painting has a life of its own -- Jackson Pollock
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance. -- Chuck Close
Painting is so much more than the materials. -- Brian Johnson
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface. -- Georges Seurat
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. -- John French Sloan
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. -- Joseph Joubert
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. -- John Ruskin
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. -- Jackson Pollock
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. -- Ralph Bakshi
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. -- Pablo Picasso
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. -- David Hockney
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. -- Paul Cezanne
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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. -- Edward Hopper
I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality. -- Meher Baba
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. -- Oscar Wilde
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. -- Agnes Martin
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings -- George Tooker
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. -- Fernando Botero
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. -- Jackson Pollock
Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose. -- Peter Doig
Nature engenders the science of painting. -- Robert Delaunay
Through a painting we can see the whole world. -- Hans Hofmann
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. -- Paul Cezanne
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained. -- Maurice de Vlaminck
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. -- E. O. Wilson
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbet
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. -- Jackson Pollock

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