“A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.” FeelsTryingWellsCharacterShowsHappensVoiceFiguresColorTvsFitHorrorPaintSuspenseFrustrationDreadTv ShowsAnger And Fear Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.” PeopleLooksShowsParticularScenePaintUnderstand Me Author:J. M. W. Turner
“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.” ThinkingWorldYearsHumansStillsShowsUnderstandingNumbersLaughingCryPrayingStructurePaintPreservesCurseDetest Author:Janice Tanton
“Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.” GivingShowsChancePaint Book:John Marin Source: John Marin
“This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.” WorldI CanShowsBigsMissingPaintDetailsDrawingRectangles Author:Wolfgang Pauli
“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.” IfsShowsArtistWishPerfectSubjectsPhotographyAbsolutesPaintPhotographerPainterPortraitsFidelityOld Days Author:Aubrey Beardsley
“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.” IfsMadeShowsEyeWaterNatureAnimalSkyEventsFieldsColorBlueGreenPaintVegetablesVarySuperfluousMineralsHue Author:Leigh Hunt