Paint Quotes
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During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
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People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.
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I use pure acetone Nail Polish Remover from Nails Inc. to really strip the nail. It's actually important to dehydrate your nail a little bit to get rid of all of the oil before you put color on; then the color will really stick. Then, I use OPI Bond Aid. It's a liquid dehydrator that you paint onto each nail.
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I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
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...Michelangelo was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.
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I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
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I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.
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I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.
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About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
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God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.
