Painting - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65322<![CDATA[I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64020<![CDATA[If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45432<![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433<![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45424<![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45425<![CDATA[Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray Or paint the full-orb'd ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45426<![CDATA[I mix them with my brains, sir. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45427<![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428<![CDATA[Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45429<![CDATA[The fellow mixes blood with his colors. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45430<![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45431<![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421<![CDATA[He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45422<![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423<![CDATA[Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45408<![CDATA[Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45409<![CDATA[I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45410<![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45411<![CDATA[As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45412<![CDATA[From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45413<![CDATA[If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45414<![CDATA[A picture is a poem without words. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45415<![CDATA[Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45416<![CDATA[Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45417<![CDATA["Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45418<![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45419<![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45420<![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403<![CDATA[Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45404<![CDATA[Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45405<![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406<![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45407<![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20522<![CDATA[Pictures must not be too picturesque. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3329<![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3280