“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.” IfsGivingMeanLittlesArtWould BeTurnsPaintingMachinesAskingAimMereSatisfiedMore TimeEnthusiasticIncompleteCollectors Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“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.” MeanEndsSidesEffectsPaintingPaperConsciousEmbraceMerePaintStriveTechniqueExpressiveMeans To An EndMannerisms Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling.” ThinkingWellsFunEventsPaintingMereProfoundPainterFulfilling Author:Steven Whitney
“The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.” IfsNeedsWritingSeemsSongInformationPaintingRootsMirrorsMereSentencesRealistImpart Author:Colm Toibin
“The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.” ThinkingKnowsMayStillsEnoughPracticeForeverAlivePaintingSingingMereHillsInstantWornLive ForeverWrensCezanne Book:This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems Source: This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems