Apricots Quote by Dogen

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is…

— Anonymous

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

— Henri Matisse

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

— Reginald Heber

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

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

— Robert Ryman

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

— Frida Kahlo

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

— Frida Kahlo

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

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

— Arshile Gorky

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 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

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

— Henri Matisse