Paint Quotes - Page 2

I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint The greats were great because they paint a lot

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

You are a paintbrush in hands of the Artist.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.