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
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
Jack Nicholson
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
Keith Haring
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Keith Haring
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark Twain
I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
David Lynch
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
Erykah Badu
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
Andy Warhol
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
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Ed Sheeran
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
Keith Haring
The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!
Tracy Morgan
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
George Lucas
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso