Paint Quotes

1684 Paint quotes by 1040 unique authors

The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined… — Robert Genn
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. — Robert Genn
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 off… — Robert Genn
No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but… — Robert Genn
I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes… — Arshile Gorky
If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of… — Lawren Harris
Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. — Richard Schmid
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before… — Richard Schmid
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. — Richard Schmid
Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond… — Richard Schmid
Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more... — Richard Schmid
Paint like a pig eats. — Richard Schmid
If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't,… — Richard Schmid
You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not… — Richard Schmid
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it. — Wayne Thiebaud
I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some… — Wayne Thiebaud
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air,… — Wayne Thiebaud
I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark… — Will Barnet
I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher… — Robert Bateman
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience. — Robert Bateman
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. — E. J. Hughes
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting. — E. J. Hughes
One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that… — E. J. Hughes
At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will… — Crazy Horse
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier

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