Paint Quotes
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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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There was such a wonderful setting of the moon this morning, the yellow moon against little pink clouds, and the mountains a pure deep blue viewed from his Swiss farmhouse, quite glorious, I would so have liked to paint. But it was cold, even my window was frozen, although I had kept the fire in all night.
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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
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I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
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I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart
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When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.
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Whenever I go anywhere in the world to do a show I try to paint something in the street as well.
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If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.
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Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
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Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.
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Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
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I paint the impossibility of painting.
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All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.
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Just smile, Max. The paint cannot be stronger than a smile. But it is.
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The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
