Get inspiration from artists' quotes the whole year round with this free, printable Painting Calendar for 2009. The calendar features quotes by, among others, Robert Henri, Leonardo da Vinci, and Edgar Degas. It also features a handy tick-box for keeping track of which days in a month you painted (or not).
Use the links below to print the calendar one month at a time or print the full 2009 calendar. (It's in .pdf format, without ads.)
Painting Calendar: January 2009
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January's quote is from the famous art teacher Robert Henri: "Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been."
Painting Calendar: February 2009
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February's quote is from art critic Peter Schjeldahl: "Edges aren't boundaries but places where paint, surging across the surface, changes color."
Painting Calendar: March 2009
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March's quote is from Paul Gauguin: "Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed."
Painting Calendar: April 2009
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April's painting quote is from art writer William H Gass: "Of all the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up."
Painting Calendar: May 2009
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May's painting quote comes modern artist Frenand Leger: "The craving for color is a natural necessity just as for water and fire."
Painting Calendar: June 2009
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June's painting quote comes from the creator of the Dilbert cartoons, Scott Adams: "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Painting Calendar: July 2009
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Painting Calendar: August 2009
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August's painting quote comes from Leonardo da Vinci: "The mind of the painter should be like a mirror which always takes the color of the thing that it reflects, and which is filled by as many images as there are things placed before it."
Painting Calendar: September 2009
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September's painting quote comes from that most famous of Impressionists, Monet: "It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly."
Painting Calendar: October 2009
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October's painting quote is from Degas: "I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things."
Painting Calendar: November 2009
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November's painting quote is from that lesser known Impressionist, Camille Pissarro: "Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add."
Painting Calendar: December 2009
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December's painting quote is from Paul Cézanne: "Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing one's sensations."
