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“Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.”

Looks Fun Paint Lovely Colour Fascinating Delicious Absorbing Matching

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.”

Knows Looks Eye White Paint Conviction Strikes Spots Boards

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.”

Trying Looks Enough Water Clear Wonderful Paint Bottom Insane Grass Application Clear Water

Author:Claude Monet

“When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.”

Ifs Feels Wells Looks Might Able Nature Forget Down And Notes Paint Forget It

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

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

“If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.”

Ifs Needs Looks Ends Nature Paint Canvas Organize Naturalism

Author:David Hockney

“Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.”

Looks Study Subjects Paint Oneself

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.”

Ifs Looks Natural Style Mountain Models Stones Paint Copies Cracks

Author:Cennino Cennini

“I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.”

People Looks Shows Particular Scene Paint Understand Me

Author:J. M. W. Turner

“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.”

Looks Sometimes Matter Bigs Moving Fields Paint Active Cows Canvas Dissatisfaction

Author:Philip Guston

“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

Thinking Feels Looks Littles Has Beens Real Country Nature Walks Rocks Painting Paint Clouds Studios Woods Each Day Living Things Diagrams

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.”

Looks School Teacher Son Genius Paint Painter Apples My Son

Author:Charles Mingus

“When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.”

People Looks Persons Home Effort Development Concerned Wake Up Paint Surface Facade Portraiture

Book:Art & lifestyle

Source: Art & lifestyle

“The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.”

Want Humans Looks Reason Views Painting Paint Glasses Command Intimacy Intimate Look Up Reducing

Author:Mark Rothko

“No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.”

Feels Trying Looks Lasts Artist Asks Walks Comfortable Pages Paint Shoulders Staring Manuscripts

Author:Robert Genn

“If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.”

Ifs Knows Mind Looks Results Seeing Conflict Paint Like Something

Author:Richard Schmid

“Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.”

Looks Eye Paint

Book:Gilbert Stuart

Source: Gilbert Stuart

“When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.”

Knows Want Feels Looks Persons Feelings Know How Paint Portraits Portraiture Physiognomy

Author:Jamie Wyeth

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