Best giving & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.”

Giving Writing Book Shows Used Painting Serious Band Shots Decided Albums Quitting My Time Abandon Splits Gallery Writing Music

Author:Isaac Marion

“Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.”

Giving Whole Morning Painting Health Dinner Excellent Appetite Riding Abraham

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.”

Giving Answers Walks Sea Painting Moon Remains Investigation Elude

Book:Picasso and his art

Source: Picasso and his art

“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

Giving Stills Lines Space Painting Expression Materials Paint Quests Manuals Still Life Tactile Cubism

Author:Georges Braque

“No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.”

Knows Giving Seems Trouble Painting Please Anxiety

Book:Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883

Source: Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883

“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.”

Giving Children Wanted Term Interest Wife Painting One Day Giving Up Paint Very Good My Wife Canvas Advise Renoir

Author:Claude Monet

“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.”

Ifs Giving Mean Littles Art Would Be Turns Painting Machines Asking Aim Mere Satisfied More Time Enthusiastic Incomplete Collectors

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".”

“Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.”

Way Giving Two Spirit Progress Color Painting Materials Paint Sensations Progression

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.”

Giving Mean Literature Painting Shapes Perception Drawing Colour Sensations Concrete Abstraction

Author:Paul Cezanne

“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Giving Feelings Artist Wish Painting Perception Observation Atmosphere Register

Author:Lucian Freud

“What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.”

People Knows Needs Giving Artist Pieces Missing Painting Strategy Sculpture Business Strategy Best Business Catering

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”

Giving May Two Three Space Objects Painting Illusion Concern Strive Painter Luxury Planes Peculiar Quantity Sculpture Sculptors

Author:Herbert Read

“You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.”

Giving Writing Whole Jobs Form Song Painting Productions Architecture Landscape Atmosphere Intimate Ambiance

Author:Keren Ann

“Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.”

Giving Feelings Fall Painting Tradition Give Me Noble Landscape Academic Landscape Painting

Author:Robert Genn

“I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.”

People Giving Painting Serious Giving Up Ambition

Author:Robert Bateman

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