Quotes About Painting Your Future

#1. If you can really accept the fact that every time you think a thought and every time you speak a word you are literally painting your future or making your dinner - whatever you want to call it - you are creating ... and you are creating your own life.

Louise Hay

#2. Never look back. The past is done. The future is a blank canvas. Work on creating a masterpiece. Only you have the power to make your painting beautiful.

Suzy Kassem

#3. Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.

Thomas Kinkade

#4. The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

Jackson Pollock

#5. I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

Orhan Pamuk

#6. [ ... ] vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.

Peter M. Senge

#7. The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

Umberto Boccioni

#8. From today, painting is dead.

Paul Delaroche

#9. I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.

Rosemary Mahoney

#10. Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Pankaj Mishra

#11. It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

Josh Billings

#12. I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.

Agathe Snow

#13. We make our own music.
We paint our own future.

A.P. Sweet

#14. Everyone that steps on to the ladder of success must have hope. Without it, no one is able to reach the top.

Ellen J. Barrier

#15. The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#16. That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

J.K. Rowling

#17. Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt, transitionin from fittin in to standin out.

Drake

#18. People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

Robyn Hitchcock

#19. If the country were open on its borders, new forms would certainly immigrate, and this also would seriously disturb the relations of some of the former inhabitants.

Charles Darwin