“You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.” KnowsPaintingTiredBoredom Author:William Hazlitt
“When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.” UsedStageDesignPaintingTiredOilCompositionInfluentialCollagesOil Painting Author:Myfanwy Pavelic
“If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.” IfsI CanDifferentHoursLosesFocusPaintingTiredPaintPushingSensitivity Author:Gary Panter
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.” KnowsLooksArtStillsEndsEyeArtistDarkCareersToo MuchSeeingPaintingSafeComfortableTiredDetailsWarmBlindnessNeedlesMiniatures Author:Ian McDonald
“I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."” WantLooksLittlesArtBodyKidsWantedFacesCoursesLanguagePayAttentionSituationClearPaintingBedConversationTiredPay AttentionLittle KidPostureBody LanguageArt History Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.” IfsGivingTryingPaintingTiredBoringNewspapersSo Boring Book:Andy Warhol Source: Andy Warhol