Top 35 Painting Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.”

— Pablo Picasso

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3. “As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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4. “Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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5. “I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.”

— Bob Ross

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6. “Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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7. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”

— Bob Ross

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8. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Pablo Picasso

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9. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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10. “We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”

— Pablo Picasso

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11. “The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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12. “Let’s build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.”

— Bob Ross

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13. “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

— Pablo Picasso

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14. “Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.”

— Bob Ross

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15. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

— Pablo Picasso

16. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

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17. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

— Pablo Picasso

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18. “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

— Pablo Picasso

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19. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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20. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

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21. “What is done in love is done well.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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22. “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”

— Salvador Dalí

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23. “Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”

— Bob Ross

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24. “You can do anything you want to do – This is your world.”

— Bob Ross

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25. “There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”

— Pablo Picasso

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26. “You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.”

— Bob Ross

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27. “No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.”

— Bob Ross

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28. “Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”

— Orhan Pamuk

29. “It’s hard to see things when you’re too close. Take a step back and look.”

— Bob Ross

30. “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”

— Henri Matisse

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31. “I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

— Pablo Picasso

32. “People might look at you a bit funny, but it’s okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.”

— Bob Ross

33. “I am exhausted if I don’t work.”

— Pablo Picasso

34. “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

— Robert Henri

35. “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”

— Pablo Picasso

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36. “Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”

— Salvador Dalí

37. “To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”

— Claude Monet