Paint Quotes
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Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.
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If you can't paint, paint Big.
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Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
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If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!
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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
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The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
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I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.
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The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.
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I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
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When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
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And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
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Paint what you see, not what you know.
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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
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When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.
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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
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I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.
