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“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”

Knows Mean Stills Painting Paint Privilege Profession Obsession

Author:Alice Neel

“Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.”

People Has Beens Said Country Race New York Paint Rats Torn Rat Race Cezanne

Author:Alice Neel

“I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.”

Thinking Knows Subjects Theory Paint

Author:Alice Neel

“No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.”

Ifs Artist Talent Originals Paint Copying

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.”

Way Eye Pure Paint Colour Dazzling Impressionism

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.”

Way Should Believe Important Importance Paint

Author:Burton Silverman

“I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.”

People World Needs States Passion Events Paint Stuck Objectives Shade Realism Persistent Shifting My Passion

Author:Burton Silverman

“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.”

Thinking World Years Humans Stills Shows Understanding Numbers Laughing Cry Praying Structure Paint Preserves Curse Detest

Author:Janice Tanton

“I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.”

Want Faces Water Laughing Blue Paint Golden Burning Sunshine Blue Water

Author:Frederick Varley

“Don't paint the apple; paint the red.”

Red Paint Apples

Author:Arthur Lismer

“Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.”

Bigs Light Able Wonder Imagine Moon Appreciate Paint Mysterious Glorious Colour Yellow Moonlight Full Moon

Author:Arthur Lismer

“I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places”

Thinking Rooms Fronts Wall Paint Convince Room Wall

Book:Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems

Source: Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems

“If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what you can hold in your memory and what you lose. That's an interesting thing to try to paint.”

Ifs Trying Art Process Loses Memories Interesting Paint Interesting Things Our Memories

Author:Ross Bleckner

“Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.”

Wells Facts Past Courses Paint Gender Exception

Author:Georg Baselitz

“Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.”

Thinking Use Moving Easy Nice Cutting Materials Direct Sticks Paint Steel Bangs

Author:Anthony Caro

“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.”

Feels Should Mean Desire Certain Speak Views Subjects Essentials Embrace Paint Point Of View Revelations Logical Conception Compelled Absolutely Nothing

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.”

Men World Artist Design Perception Paint Prophet Makers Reporters Entertainers Craftsman Seers Contamination

Author:Morris Graves

“I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.”

Book Process Imagination Painting Listening Paint Flight My Imagination Audio Audio Books

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.”

People Knows Purpose Paint

Author:Romare Bearden

“When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.”

Night Watches Late Wine Drinking Paint Careful Beer Drinking Beer

Author:Hiroko Sakai

“Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.”

Knows Writing Book Play Easy Struggle Painting Projects Paint

Author:Antony Sher

“The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.”

Spirit Red Shining Paint Arrogance Target Foreheads

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.”

Men Faces Painting Paint Portraits

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.”

Ifs Art Earth Faces Loses Creatures Red Paint Wretched Fiery Freshness Complexion

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.”

Should Home House Paint Housewife

Author:James Howell

“The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.”

States Lines Half Cutting Painting Skins Blind Paint Dozen Furry Charcoal

Author:Andrew Forge

“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.”

Should Wells Three Impossible Effects Ten Gains Difficulty Paint Appearance Speed Inches Canvas Yards Fleeting

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.”

Feels Care Paint Portraits Sympathetic Portraiture

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint them.”

Concerned Paint Studios Stores Garage

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.”

Persons Real Together Pleasure Anxiety Paint Studios Nervous Kicks Agony

Author:Luc Tuymans

“To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.”

Realizing Paint Copies Sensations

Author:J. E. H. MacDonald

“You can paint your soul with any medium.”

Soul Paint Mediums Your Soul

Author:Jeet Aulakh

“I choose to paint beauty.”

Beauty Paint

Author:Igor Babailov

“It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.”

Painting Easier Paint Debate Realistic Realism

Author:Igor Babailov

“My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.”

Problem Found Painting Paint Dirt

Author:Robert Gober

“The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.”

Trying Humans Reality Light Faces Grace Magic Succeed Shadow Paint Passing Passings Painter Human Faces Light And Shadow Overtaking

Author:John Edgar Park

“Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.”

Way Real Film Form Water Painting Paint Bounds Planes Gravity Sculpture Pigment

Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

“Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.”

Use Hands Paint Oil Mediums Mess Get Back Favourite Wet Pencils Tactile Favourite Things

Author:Cy Twombly

“Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.”

Men Seems Certain Painting Masters Paint Old Man Masterpiece

Author:Alex Katz

“Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.”

Art I Can Paint Shoes Guts Strings Lard

Author:George Luks

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

Looks Eye Paint

Book:Gilbert Stuart

Source: Gilbert Stuart

“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.”

Thinking World Years Firsts Memories Design Painting Needed Skills Concepts Paint Details Driven Around The World Rely Technical Skills

Author:Milford Zornes

“The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.”

Ifs Needs Mind Ready Paint Details Worthwhile

Author:Horace Pippin

“I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.”

Long Able Paint Denmark

Author:Margrethe II of Denmark

“People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.”

People Want Wells Art Hard Eye Courses Aim Paint Obvious Expensive Target Arrows Bulls Niche Smack

Author:Brian Eno

“For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.”

World Should Writing Stills Action Grows Struggle Rich Influence Paint Marmalade

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.”

Thinking Faces Paint Tails

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.”

Paint Bards

Author:George Crabbe

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.”

Want Done Dream Subjects Months Couple Paint Bathing Renoir Tableau

Author:Claude Monet

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