Painting is the action or skill of using paint, either in a picture or as decoration.

1. Painting is like child birth you forget how hard it is until you do it again
Anonymous

2. Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.
Anais Nin

3. When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art.
Marc Chagall

4. Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting
Anonymous

5. All still life’s are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
Robert Musil

6. Painting Is Stronger than I am.It Can make me do whatever it Wants.
Pablo Picasso

7. Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay

8. I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.
Leonardo Dicaprio

9. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Pablo Picasso

10. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

11. The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
Anonymous

12. Love is a painting and your heart is the paint brush. You paint our love with the waves of our heartbeats
Anonymous

13. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
Lady Gaga

14. All mornings are like a painting, you need a little inspiration to get you going, a little smile to brighten it and a message from someone who cares to color your day.
Anonymous

15. A first rate soup is more creative than a second rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

16. What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
Vincent Van Gogh

17. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde

18.Instead, she sat there, smiling that small, small inscrutable smile, like Mona Lisa herself, although I must say that until that moment, I’d never found Mona Lisa’s smile particularly interesting or even particularly a smile. Looking at Lake, I understood what probably everyone else already knows about the woman in that painting: we are drawn to her not because of what the smile gives us but because it gives us nothing. We are waiting to get past the smile. We are waiting–we’ve spent centuries waiting–for the woman to speak.”
Marisa de los Santos

19. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides

20. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas

21. Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access
Banksy

22. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp

23. Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
Orhan Pamuk

24. Technically, a makeup artist’s canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.
Richard Phillips

25. All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
Chuck Close

26. Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul – and you answer
Anonymous

27. Painting, The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce

28. I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.
Edouard Manet

29. Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
William Shakespeare

30. If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a wall. Then I think we'd see the beauty, then we'd stand staring in awe
Anonymous

31. Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann

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32. Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

33. If you are feeling blue, try painting yourself a different color
Anonymous

34. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci

35. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali

36. Art is the stored honey of the human soul
Anonymous

37. 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

38. It's all your choice the slate is clean but now you have to decide how to paint it
Anonymous

39. I'd rather be home alone, painting.
Margaret Keane

40. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

41. Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

42. Painting is a hobby for me.
Renee O'Connor

43. Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Andy Warhol

44. Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.
Kak Sri

45. The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso

46. I’d love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I’d tell him, “It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.
Jarod Kintz

47. You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
Nikos Kazantzakis

48. Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay

49. I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Vincent Willem van Gogh

50. Painting completed my life.
Frida Kahlo

51. If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper

52. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

53. I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse

54. Be confident have patience and paint
Anonymous

55. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

56. Life is just like painting. Draw the lines with hope. Erase The Errors With tolerance. Dip the brush with lots of patience. And Color It With LOVE.
Anonymous

57. I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

58. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
Danny Kaye

59. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

60. I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because ‘you aren’t going to make a living doing that.’ I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
Billy Childish

61. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso

62. Painting is not about what you see, its about what you don't see.
Bernd Haussmann