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452 Painter Quotes

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.

Value Artists Expression Life
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Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

Color Eye Soul Strings
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The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

Joy Life Triumph Values
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Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Art Power Improvement Human soul
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Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.

Man Spiritual Heart Heaven
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Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

Work Art Time Emotions
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

He True friends Afraid Enemies
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Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

Love Disgust Hatred Immortal
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
Art Life Enjoy Endure
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Art Conversation Hearing
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Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

Words Last forever Durable Eternal
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

Silent People Think Most highly
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Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

Sacrivices When Repaid Fold
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Men Genius Excel Labor
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We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves

Hate Friends Books Opinions
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Rules and models destroy genius and art

Rules Destroy Genuis Art
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Familiarity Breed Contempt Admiration
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry Worth Life
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning Own Great Reward
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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Knowledge Wisdom Heart Feel
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Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination...

Business Education Learning Mind
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The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

Best Conversation Called Thinking
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Only Impeccable Writers Never
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Friendship Love Heart Mind
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

World Nothing Convinced Errors
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
War Others Peace Themselves
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Truly Great Person Thought
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why,

Smart Observe One Why
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice Child Ignorance
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Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Greatest Purpose Mind Open
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves

We Disposed Quarrel Ourselves
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Vice Forgiven Hypocrisy Repentance
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Books Souls Secrets Our own
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Man Laughs Weeps Animal
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

World Loves Forgive Honest truth
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits.

Laugh Person Health Beauty
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Love Liberty Power Ourselves
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Nature Eyes Understanding Hearts
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity

Our Confidence Capacity
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Grace Defined Harmony Soul
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Pain Concern Gives Destruction
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity Great Teacher Adversity
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Better Read Write Able
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Happy True Nature Age
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal Will More Knowledge
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Great thoughts Practice Acts
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace Women Effect Beauty
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

You Win Faith Victory
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Man Great Lifetime History
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hope Possession Wretched Low
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