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“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?”

Spiritual Artist Force Heaven Walks Vision Divine Genius Conscious Ears Paint Chosen Painter Vanity Landscape Unconscious Urges Angle Real Beauty Emulation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.”

Mean Ends Sides Effects Painting Paper Conscious Embrace Mere Paint Strive Technique Expressive Means To An End Mannerisms

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.”

Art Artist Ability Perception Paint Perceive Brushes Palette

Author:Dean Mitchell

“The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.”

Ifs Persons Doe Artist Emotion Machines Paint

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous.”

Firsts May Bits Process Cutting Stage Paper Draws Paint Spontaneous Collages

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.”

Should Art Stories Beautiful Form Interest Fields Expression Paint Abstract Colour Works Of Art Illustration Expressive

Author:John F. Carlson

“If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.”

Ifs Years Ten Photography Paint

Author:John F. Carlson

“You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.”

Ifs Understanding Growth Realizing Liberty Tree Movement Waste Conscious Paint Unnecessary Living Things

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.”

Wonder Movement Elements Paint Clouds Landscape Fascinating Free Movement

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.”

Giving Feels Persons Enough Information Paint Photograph Portraits Portraiture

Author:Francesco Clemente

“If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice”

People Ifs Should Political Crime Fairs Paint Injustice Committed Oppression Saddam Hussein Political Oppression

Author:Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.”

Giving Two Artist Lines Teacher Teaching Style Students Shapes Opposites Accounts Paint Variety Explanation Colour Unexpected Being An Artist Inexplicable Being A Teacher

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.”

People Thinking Art Different Moments Attitude Painting Approach Paint Mood Canvas Commercial Art

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Live to paint, don't paint to live.”

Life Paint Live Life

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.”

People Humans Art Sometimes Accepting Human Nature Acceptance Serious Ought Ocean Paint Unfortunate Quirks

Author:Robert Genn

“Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.”

Culture Fool Paint Painter Curator

Author:Robert Genn

“Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.”

Trying Particular Paint Bees Brushes Here And There Meadows Methodology Alpine

Author:Robert Genn

“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

“The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.”

People World Conditions Painting Members Standards Medicine Paint Profession Association Pilots Airline Dentistry Airline Pilots

Author:Robert Genn

“My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.”

Kind Hands Used Certain Technology Figures Painting Paint Screens Canvas Vans Woven Kinds Of Love Apps Juicy

Author:Robert Genn

“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Want Mind Ends Sometimes Painting Twenties Paint Starting Things To Do Fifteen Finishing

Book:Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

Source: Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.”

Ifs May Feelings Artist Views Sky Shapes Mountain Experience Response Paint Finished Canvas Soar Evoke

Author:Lawren Harris

“Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.”

Firsts I Can Powerful Subjects Paint Obvious Obvious Things

Author:Richard Schmid

“It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.”

Two Painting Paint Rap Painter Ruins Collaboration Hammers

Author:Richard Schmid

“Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.”

Way Reason Simple Solutions Sticks Complexes Paint Complexity Exotic Overboard Simple Solutions

Author:Richard Schmid

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more.”

Use Worry Materials Paint

Author:Richard Schmid

“Paint like a pig eats.”

Paint Pigs

Author:Richard Schmid

“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

“You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.”

Way Light Values Clear Cutting Conditions Subjects Painting Stronger Sticks Paint Faithful Appropriate Yield Sensible Multitudes

Author:Richard Schmid

“If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.”

Ifs Objects Paint Staring No Point

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.”

Way Trying I Can Turns Aspect Paint Manage Landscape Manipulation Manipulate Pictorial Pretty Places

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.”

Thinking World Littles Real Air Car Television Painting Activity Paint Speed Absurd Glorious Real World Squares Sunlight Canvas Animation Motor Fresh Air High Speed Worlds Apart Motor Cars

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.”

Art Jobs Support Teacher Groups Fields Paint Seven Profession Wilderness Geography Day Jobs Field Trip Geography Teachers

Author:Robert Bateman

“It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.”

Skills Paint Strokes

Author:Robert Bateman

“It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.”

Dangerous Danger Paint Treading Picturesque

Author:E. J. Hughes

“It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.”

Quality Design Painting Photography Cameras Paint Dues Invention

Author:E. J. Hughes

“One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Reason Feelings Wonder Wonderful Paint Canvas

Author:E. J. Hughes

“Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.”

Age Pain Alive Stage Paint Library Greek Shelves Crowded Chaucer

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise”

Body Spirit Water Red Stones Paint Bones Graves Joints Plunge Fresh Water

Author:Crazy Horse

“I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.”

Should Light Figures Tears Scene Solitude Paint Shade Canvas Portraits

Author:Emily Dickinson

“I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.”

Moments Concern Prejudice Paint Theme

Author:Ralph Allen

“The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Real States Watches Too Much Smart Series West Paint Credit Glad Generosity Farms Farmers Good People Fence Advise Mortgage Dakota

Author:Will Rogers

“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Long Art Matter Motivational Creating Draws Paint Cooks Engines Cultivating Collages

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well.”

People Wells Motivational Rich Emotional Color Paint Vocabulary Palette Emotional Life

Book:Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“Man creates what he is, man creates himself. The meaning has to be created. You have to sing your meaning, you have to dance your meaning, you have to paint your meaning, you have to live it. Through living, it will arise; through dancing, it will start penetrating your being. Through singing, it will come to you. It is not like a rock just lying there to be found, it has to bloom in your being.”

Men Motivational Lying Found Rocks Singing Dancing Paint Arise

Author:Rajneesh

“My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.”

World Ideas War Wanted Artist Certain Father Army Paint Photographer Oil Painter No Idea War Of The Worlds Sunday World War Ii World War I

Author:David Salle

“It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.”

Turns Paint Landscape Borrowed

Author:Joe Bradley

“I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.”

Thinking Want Writing Years Kind Would Be Able Subjects Politician Members Prison Paint Saint Gang Controversial Serials Laughable Gang Members

Author:Robert Draper

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