Activity Quote by Romare Bearden Download Open image “Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.” — Romare Bearden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Inspirational Love Painting Self
Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting. — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work. — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he… — Romare Bearden 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 to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share
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 aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
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