I Quotes
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“I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.”
“I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.”
“I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.”
“I paint in order not to cry.”
“I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.”
“I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.”
“I paint life as I would like it to be.”
Source: Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post
“I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's not necessarily going to be timeless. I want to get across what I feel and I just use the figure because I enjoy the figure.”
“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”
“I paint my destiny with hues of eccentricity, blending chaos and order in a surreal masterpiece.”
“I paint my dreams on a canvas of life with a smile of hope, An attempt to make my destiny a bit colorful!”
“I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.”
“I PAINT MY FACE.
By Omrane Khuder.
Mirror, distorted; I sit, paint my Face,
Toxic white Make-up buries my Scars,
My Eyes tell lies; Dumbfounded Confidence hides the Disgrace.
Place the tragic Vehicle called My Life in to Drive,
Sad pathetic Clown; Late for the suppression show,
Despair another time; Let the chuckles and defeat derive.
I paint my Heart; I hide my True.
I paint my Soul; I keep it from You.
I paint, I cannot accept; To ignore you the way you ignore Me?
I paint my scarred and pitiful Face; No Will left to restore Me.
I paint my Face; it’s all I know to do.
My painted Face shatters the Mirror, yet still all I see is You.”
“I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.”
“I paint my own reality.”
Source: Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced
“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.”
“I paint my wrists
a pretty red
To silence the demons
in my head
Creating art
out of my pain
It's the only thing
that keeps me sane
But why do others cry
when they see my art?
Is it because
I ripped the canvas apart?
I never understood
why they looked so upset
I guess they just don't like
the color red”
“I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.”
“I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.”
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
“I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.”
“I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
Source: Frida Kahlo
“I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.”
“I paint the darkness and the silence,
You see them as stars and poetry.”
Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems
“I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.”
“I paint the walls with his blood.”
“I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.”
“I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.”
“I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.”
“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.”
“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.”
“I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.”
“I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.”
“I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.”
“I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.”
“I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.”
“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.”
“I paint what I see and not what others like to see.”
“I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.”
“I paint what I think, not what I see.”
“I paint when I cannot photograph.”
“I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.”
“I paint with my back to the world”
Source: Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond
“I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.”
“I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.”
“i painted it because i dreamed it
because we all dreamed it”
Source: The Little Boy and the Painter
“I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.”
“I painted myself out of my painting.”