It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.
Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?
I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.
I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.
If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.
I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.
I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.
I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.
I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.
I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.
I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.
Some people like to paint and sing. We like to create and build.
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
You don't have to get all the way into the paint to still draw attention or get contact.
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.
I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.
Trump is an icon. He is a part of American history. He is every bit the icon as anyone I paint.
We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their daughters paint toenails all kinds of colours.
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.
One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.
Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.
I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.
You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.
I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It's a form of synaesthesia.
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