From Painters, When They Talk

“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”
~ Vincent van Gogh

“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
~ Frida Kahlo

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”
~ Pablo Picasso

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
~ Pablo Picasso

“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
~ Claude Monet

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
~ Edgar Degas

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
~ Claude Monet

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” 
~ Plutarch

“I want to be famous but unknown!”
~ Edgar Degas

All from 26 Painting Quotes By The Masters To Inspire You