Paint Quotes
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
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When I feel tired and discouraged and I lie down on the sofa, then I think of the simplest thing I can – a piece of string – and I go in it and paint it. That's the way to keep painting – to create something inside that makes you want to recreate it.
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Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.
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If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘oh I know that like the back of my hand.
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I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
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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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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
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If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.
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I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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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 paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
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Ultimately, it doesn't matter to the world whether you paint or dance or write. The world will probably get by without the product of your efforts. But that is not the point. The point is what the inner process of following your creative impulses will do to you. It is clearly about process. Love the work, love the process. Our fascination will pull our attention forward. That, also, will fascinate the viewer.
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I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.
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Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.
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Part of what I'm about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
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My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
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Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.
