Paint Quotes - Page 17

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

I don't paint, I hit.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.