Best painting & brushes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.”

Thinking Men Two Lasts Artist Talent Painting Painter Muse Brushes Trios

Author:Robert Breault

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

“My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.”

Littles Use Left Color Painting Finished Tiny Brushes Matisse Renoir

Book:Past tense: diaries

Source: Past tense: diaries

“Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.”

Men Trying Wells Ideas Mines Painting Skills Canvas Brushes

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.”

People Knows Want Pieces Childhood Painting Intellectual Mark Landscape Abstract Brushes

Author:Jenny Saville

“Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!”

Men Said Faces Moving Audience Painting Fantastic Sat Spokes Brushes Hovering Moving Closer

Author:Robert Genn

“Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.”

Should States Painting Battle Weapons Prepared Preparation Be Prepared Brushes Gears Readiness

Author:Richard Schmid

“They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.”

Said Color Painting Huge Silent Critics Violent Gray Wrestling Oppressed Strokes Sober Brushes Brush Strokes

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.”

Mind Done Facts Artist White Painting Pure Tradition Roots Empty Method Embrace Starting Flying Spots Emptiness Realising Strokes Brushes Penetrate Spontaneity Apparitions

Author:Antoni Tapies

“The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter.”

Said Matter Faces Certain Memories Painting Materials Faults Paint Speed Resistance Interpretation Capture Gestures Brushes Mindless Insistence

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.”

Way Light Courses Sun Painting Scene Creating Down And Warm Evening Brushes Mist Filters

Author:Cory Trepanier

“The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.”

Fall Successful Painting Brushes

Author:Toni Onley

“Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.”

Practice Painting Wander Judgement Realms Conventional Brushes

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.”

Way Use Artist Color Painting Computer Pressure Paint Finals Painter Sensitive Guts Digital Pens Brushes Pixels

Author:Donald Lambert

“It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.”

Trying Long Sometimes Matter Enough Use Home Running Feet Painting Tables Seconds Canvas Strokes Brushes Erase Assistants Home Run Methodology Rigs Brush Strokes

Author:James Nares

“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”

People Thinking Looks Light Eye Turns Rooms Teach Talent College Color Painting Exercise Standing Shoulders Bunch Release Editors Canvas Brushes Slap Dip

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.”

Problem Universe Painting Masters Circles Brushes

Author:Mike Todd, Jr.

“I personally prefer working digitally because it allows me to work quickly and cleanly. I don't have to buy paint or brushes or canvases, I don't have to wait for paintings to dry before sending them to clients, I don't have to photograph or scan my final work, and I can make edits immediately and easily.”

I Can Waiting Painting Paint Finals Photograph Dry Clients Brushes Edits

Author:Julie Dillon

“A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.”

Ifs Art Artist Possibility Painting Members Unions Paint Studios Artistic Officials Etc Portraits Brushes Mural

Author:Ilya Kabakov

“In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.”

Way Use Sound Records Painting Instruments Paint Brushes

Author:John McLaughlin

“I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.”

Firsts Form Stage Painting Bird Paint Unconscious Brushes

Author:Joan Miro

“If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.”

Ifs Want House Blood Painting Horror Cost Six Wide Inches Brushes Wrists Buckets Dip

Author:Bruce Campbell

“I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.”

Believe Wanted Three I Believe Deals Knowing Sadness Sky Loneliness Fields Painting Paint Brushes Wheat Cloudy Wheat Fields Cloudy Skies Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.”

Stills Done Rocks Painting Depends Brushes

Author:Patti Smith

“Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.”

Persons Art Certain Song Views Behinds Awareness Painting Amount Direct Strokes Brushes Brush Strokes

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

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