Quotes by Painters - Page 4

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
Arthur Rackham
I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.
Rabih Alameddine
One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.
Vincent van Gogh
The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Bennett
Feeling sorry for myself was an art.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
William Blake
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
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Even ivory towers need central heating.
Breyten Breytenbach
People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ("Words flew away like birds")
Erik Pevernagie
I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.
Henry Miller
Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.
Henry Miller
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.
Leonora Carrington
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
William Blake
If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)
Erik Pevernagie
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
Natalie Goldberg
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
John Berger
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
John Berger
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
Georgia O'Keeffe
All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you’re free.
Natalie Goldberg
My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.
Shan Sa
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
I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake.
Mu Xin
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
William Hazlitt
I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf.
Henry Miller
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.
Anna Kavan
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Michelangelo
It is no rest to be idle.
Paul Peel
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.
Henry Miller
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
Henry Miller
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
Natalie Goldberg
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
Jasper Johns
The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ("The grass was greener over there")
Erik Pevernagie
If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.
William Blake
Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should not have been done. ( “Island of regret. Island of remorse” )
Erik Pevernagie
This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I'd met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn't let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.
Henry Miller
When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )
Erik Pevernagie
IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.V   If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man.VI   If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.VII   The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.
William Blake
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.
Paul Cézanne
If the whole world is in a rush and people are out of step with themselves, they fail to catch that quirky aura and that special quality of life that feeds our soul-searching frame of mind and that builds a coveted haven, giving recognition and self-reliance. ("The unbearable heaviness of being”)
Erik Pevernagie
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent van Gogh
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh
What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.
Claude Monet
We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it.
Françoise Gilot
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward Hopper
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
When a desperate, hungry spirit appears and makes the guinea pigs squeal it is because he knows where to put the live wire of sex, because he knows that beneath the hard carapace of indifference there is concealed the ugly gash, the wound that never heals.
Henry Miller
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Wayne Thiebaud