Paint Quotes - Page 37

• By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Oil, Definitions

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• Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Artist

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• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Light, Ice

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Art, Attitude, Thinking

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• Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jealousy, War, Naked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

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• Live to paint, don't paint to live.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Life, Live Life

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• The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Ocean, Acceptance

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• Your style is the way you talk in paint.

  Robert Henri

  Style, Way

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

  Robert Genn

  Fool, Culture, Curator

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• My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Jobs, Knows

  ""A Poet's Journal: Days of 1945-1951"". Book by George Seferis, p. 105, 1999.

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• 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 off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

  Robert Genn

  Trying, Bees, Here And There

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• No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Trying, Looks

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• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Giving, Wish

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.

  Robert Genn

  Medicine, People, World

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• If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

  Pablo Picasso

  Islamic, Age, Mastery

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• My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

  Robert Genn

  Technology, Hands, Juicy

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• If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.

  Lawren Harris

  Artist, Views, Sky

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• Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Night, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Past, Feels

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• I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

  Mac Miller

  Song: Desperado, Album: Macadelic, 2012

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• I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

  Fred Williams

  Art, Term, Irrelevant

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• Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

  Richard Schmid

  Powerful, Obvious Things, Firsts

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• Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Drama, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

  Thomas Brooks

  Color, Sin, Satan

  "Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks".

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• Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

  Richard Schmid

  Simple, Exotic, Way

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