Paint Quotes - Page 5

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.