Activity Quote by Howard Hodgkin Download Open image “I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.” — Howard Hodgkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Paint Thinking
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. — Theodore Robinson Copy Share Image
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either. — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
