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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

- Lord Beaverbrook

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

- John Singer Sargent

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

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

- Edward Hopper

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

- Pablo Picasso

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

- Winston Churchill

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

- Jean Baptiste Corot

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

- Pablo Picasso

Painting, n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

- Ambrose Bierce

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

- James McNeill Whistler

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

- Pablo Picasso

The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing.

- Milton Avery

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso, those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

- John White

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Georges Rouault

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

- William Hazlitt

I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

- Grandma Moses

A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

- Salvador Dali

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

- Marc Chagall

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

- John Ruskin

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

- Pablo Picasso

Sir, when their backsides look good enough to slap, there's nothing more to do.

- Peter Paul Rubens

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

- Auguste Renoir

Some day they will know what I mean.

- Tom Thomson

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

- John Ciardi

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am, then I won't see it.

- Ivan Eyre