Painting Quotes Create Your Life’s Masterpiece with Colors of Inspiration
Last Updated: 01 Apr 2025

Life is like white paper, in which every person fills his own unique color. Painting is not just a color but a feeling that expresses the stories hidden inside a human being. Some people decorate their dreams with a brush, while some put their emotions in colors. Just like an artist transforms his imagination into a picture, we too can make our lives a masterpiece.
The colors of painting are not just on paper but also in our thoughts, experiences, and views of life. Every brushstroke tells a story, and every color evokes a different feeling. Some colors are of joy, some sadness, but when all of these come together, a beautiful picture is created—just like life.
Express Yourself Through Colors and Painting Quotes
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend.”– Hedy Lamarr
“A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.”– Marcel Duchamp
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”– John Singer Sargent
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”– Mao Zedong
“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time.”– Otto Dix

“Cooking is like painting or writing a song.”– Wolfgang Puck
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”– E. O. Wilson
“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”– Blaise Pascal
“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.”– Giotto di Bondone
“Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.”– David Lynch

“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other.”– Julie Harris
“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.”– Michelangelo
“I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants.”– Federico Fellini
“I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.”– Carolina Herrera
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”– Vincent Van Gogh

“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring.”– David Hockney
“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”– Jackson Pollock
“I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting.”– Milo Yiannopoulos
“I love painting so much that nothing else matters.”– Yayoi Kusama
“If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.”– Caspar David Friedrich

“If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live.”– Winston Churchill
“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”– Peter Shaffer
“If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.”– Conor Oberst
“Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.”– David Lynch
“Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and stop thinking!”– Wassily Kandinsky

“Life is a painting, and you are the artist.”– Paul J. Meyer
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery.”– Rene Magritte
“Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.”– Billy Rose
“No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it.”– Claude Monet

“Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room.”– Steven Wilson
“Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.”– Peter Doig
“Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.”– Niki de St. Phalle
“Painting chooses from universals what is most apposite.”– Francisco Goya
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”– Paul Cezanne

“Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.”– Balthus
“Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic.”– Philip Guston
“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”– Salvador Dali
“Painting is but another word for feeling.”– John Constable
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”– Robert Delaunay

“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”– Leonardo da Vinci
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”– Edgar Degas
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”– Pablo Picasso
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”– Plutarch
“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.”– Balthus

“Painting is the representation of visible forms.”– Gustave Courbet
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”– William Blake
“Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”– Roy Lichtenstein
“Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours.”– Maurice Denis
“Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.”– Ad Reinhardt

“The greatest advances of civilization have never come from centralized government.”– Milton Friedman
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”– Jean de la Bruyere
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”– Charles Dickens
Final Word Painting Quotes
Painting is not just a painting; it is a journey that brings out the depths within us. Each color brings a new twist, and each color shows a new dream. If we look at our life like a painting, then each day gives us a chance to add a new color to it.
Life is not just a color scheme made of one color, but makes it a colorful journey in which each moment is like a new brushstroke. Let your thoughts be free, express your emotions, and turn your story into a painting that inspires the world.