Able Quote by Hans Hofmann

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

— Hans Hofmann

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

— Elsie de Wolfe

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

— Elsie de Wolfe

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

— George Meyer

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing…

— John Grant

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I…

— Studs Terkel

I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something…

— J. August Richards

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost…

— William Morris Hunt

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

— Norman Vincent Peale

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you…

— Edwin Morgan

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside…

— Gertrude Stein

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden