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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.
I'm good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can't hang wallpaper or paint.
I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.
I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.
It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.
People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.
I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.
I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.
I would have loved to paint Eartha Kitt, but she's no longer here. I'm so glad I had the chance to meet her.
The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.
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.
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.
I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.
I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.
Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.
If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that.
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.
My dad programmed me to be aggressive as a young player. He always told me to go to the rim. Live in the paint.
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.
When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
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.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.