We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
I was influenced by people like David Fincher and William Friedkin, and these directors who kinda paint their films with these dark shades.
I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.
A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.
You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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.
You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.
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.
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
I like to hunt and fish, read and paint and play golf. And I can have a good time doing nothing. And, of course: be with my family.
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.
Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.
Every day I'm in my studio - it's wooden and purpose-built at the end of our garden. It's filthy and has got paint everywhere.
On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.
Paint and new flooring are simple refreshers. But it's not worth it to update all the kitchen cabinets if it's still the same bad layout.
In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.
I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.
People are really capable if you're able to give them the confidence to get something done and paint the picture of where we need to go.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.
Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.
If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.
I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.
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 emotional.
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.
First of all, I'm not a singer or rapper. I'm an artiste. Besides singing, I produce music, dance, write poetry, and sometimes I paint as well.
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