Best may & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.”

May Stills Painting Technique Meat Flats Thrill Painting A Picture

Book:Black paintings

Source: Black paintings

“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

Ifs Trying Heart Kind May Different Soul Faces Artist Example Painting Masters Perspective Hundred Claims All Kinds Painter Working It Display Masterpiece Heart And Soul Different Perspective

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.”

May Walks Journey Painting Companion Parts Of Life

Book:Thoughts and Adventures

Source: Thoughts and Adventures

“Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?”

Wells Kind May Done Eye Answers Figures Painting Paint Drawing Wit Public Eye Catalogues Figure Painting

Book:the works of thomas hood

Source: the works of thomas hood

“What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.”

Way May Has Beens Done Struggle Painting Amount Deception Labour Sweat

Author:Michelangelo

“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”

Way Kind May Sometimes Dream Might Certain Order Painting Perception Perceive Subconscious Chords

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.”

Firsts May Littles Stills Principles Study Painting Painter Colour Grounded

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.”

May Lasts Progress Painting Reactions Related Continuation

Author:Sean William Scott

“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

“In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.”

May Painting Reflection Colour Echoes Hue Homogeneity

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.”

May Lines Taken Painting Landscape Make Sense Composition Ignored Landscape Painting

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.”

May Painting Perfection Studios Composition Arrangements

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.”

Should May Lasts Order Painting Elements Introducing Last Time Flexibility Flexible

Author:Richard Schmid

“In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real.”

Ifs Way May I Can Real Waiting Vision Darkness Havens Painting Studios Bedroom

Author:Jules Olitski

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.”

“Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.”

Men Should May Art Shows Differences Teach Design Greatness Humility Painting Architecture Works Of Art Sculpture Exhibits Greatness Of Man

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”

May Book Matter Together Causes Wealth Painting Library Good Book Gallery

Author:Anton Chekhov

“You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.”

Mind Wells Looks May Book Dream Painting Slave Listening To Music

Author:Paul Gauguin

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