Paint Quotes - Page 34

• How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

  Ben Shahn

  Sky, Yellow, Black

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• What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

  Gilbert Stuart

  Potatoes, Portraits, Peaches

  Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

  Agnes Martin

  Thinking, Perfect, Mind

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Glowing, Color, Arrogance

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

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• I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Effects, Ifs, Transient

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• I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Giving, Halos

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• Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Writing, Self, Trying

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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• If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

  Diane Frolov

  Art, Cat, House

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• Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

  Mark Rippetoe

  Bodybuilding, Men, Vanity

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• As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

  Max Cannon

  Space, Studios, I Can

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• It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.

  Paul Gauguin

  Memories

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

  William Merritt Chase

  Two, Spoil

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• I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

  Marc Chagall

  Littles, Jew

  Susan P. Compton, Marc Chagall (1990). “Marc Chagall: my life, my dream : Berlin and Paris, 1922-1940”, Prestel Pub

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• We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Quality, Posse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

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• Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Discovery, Self

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• It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

  Paul Gauguin

  Simple, Blue, Simplicity

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

  Claude Monet

  Water, Insane, Trying

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• Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.

  Claude Monet

  Children, Giving Up, Wife

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• l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

  Man Ray

  Wish, Photograph

  "Photo Graphics: From the Collection of Arnold H. Crane".

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• I never draw except with brush and paint.

  Claude Monet

  Drawing, Brushes, Draws

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• I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.

  Claude Monet

  Order, Ordinary, Enthusiasm

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

  Claude Monet

  Nature, Looks, Down And

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Writing, Artist

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.28, HarperCollins

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• Paint something every day.

  David Hockney

  Habit

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