Apricots Quote by Anonymous

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

— Dogen

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

— Robert Ryman

You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living…

— John F. Carlson

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

— Henri Matisse

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

— Leonora Carrington

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you…

— Helen Van Wyk

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees,…

— David Hockney

Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up…

— Wang Wei

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking…

— Claude Monet

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

— Chris Ofili

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish…

— Robert Genn

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

— Margaret Atwood