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The whole scene had a dreamlike quality, like a Chagall painting come to life. — Lev Grossman

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor

Otherwise he stayed in the background, a small figure in a painting, while life was played out in the foreground. However, — Nina George

A painting is life and a painting is death ... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. — Ivan Albright

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. — Robert Rauschenberg

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting. — Henri Matisse

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. — Georges Braque

My painting is a contest
between life and sleep. — Francis Picabia

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves. — William C. Wright

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. — Tony Curtis

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. — Kanye West

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. — Peter James West

There are moments when clear images finally begin to emerge within the abstract painting of your life. — Renee Carlino

Painting completed my life. — Frida Kahlo

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery. — Deb Caletti

I wish to die painting. — Paul Cezanne

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. — Eddie Cahill

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it ... painting is one's private life. — Edgar Degas

We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life. — Steven Redhead

It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world. — Rosamund Hodge

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. — Jackson Pollock

But painting can be too lonely ... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work. — Marie Windsor

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey. — Winston Churchill

My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. — Yann Martel

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. — Asger Jorn

Not even by colourfully painting my window can I block out the noise of the life outside, which doesn't know I'm observing it. — Anonymous

Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. — Michael Dolan

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

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive. — Paul Cezanne

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside. — John Dyer

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner. — Rajneesh

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity. — Charles Bukowski

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney

Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do. — Fennel Hudson

The painting has a life of its own — Jackson Pollock

Dutch painting: daily life is enough. — Mason Cooley

The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. — Georges Rouault

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too. — Harvey Dunn

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting. — John Piper

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal — Susan Vreeland

Life's a vast sea
That does its mighty errand without fail,
Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. — George Eliot

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical. — Barnett Newman

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting. — Charlotte Rampling

He looked like a painting in restoration - that at some point in his life he had been beautiful. — Tor Udall

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE" ... To whom?.. To where? ... Where am I going to ... ? — Hiroko Sakai

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see. — Winston S. Churchill

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together. — Jeremy Collier

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next. — Les Wexner

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete ... to be completed in the mind of the viewer. — Russell Chatham

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky

Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed. — Atalina Wright

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting. — Robert Rauschenberg

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.
- 1959, from a catalogue — Robert Rauschenberg

One must act in painting as in life, directly. — Pablo Picasso

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. — Anthony Burgess

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting. — Stephen Beal

I want to create, not kill. — Susanne Dunlap