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DailyArtQuotes

  1. "One of the things about painting is that you can look backwards as readily as you can look forwards" - David Urban
  2. "Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment." - Claude Monet
  3. "Painting is not about the product, but about the process - the philosophy that drives my life." - Elin Pendleton
  4. "What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past..." - Matthew Collings
  5. "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." - Pablo Picasso
  6. "I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature." - Caspar David Friedrich
  7. "For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh." - Georges Rouault
  8. "I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim." - Frida Kahlo
  9. "In painting I want to say something comforting in the way that music is comforting." - Vincent van Gogh
  10. "The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind." - Kakuzo Okakura
  11. "My paintings are my camera on my world." - Jane Freeman
  12. "Painting, unlike music, rarely runs in families." - David Leffel
  13. "We paint pictures because that is what we like doing and we lack social skills at parties." - Billy Childish and Charles Thomson
  14. "The pain passes, but the beauty remains." - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  15. "I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist." - Helen Frankenthaler
  16. "The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast" - Voltaire
  17. "I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting." - Douglas Lockwood
  18. "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." - Simonides
  19. "Painting is silent poetry." - Plutarch
  20. "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." - Leonardo da Vinci