Paint Quotes - Page 34

• Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Ideas, Painting

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• Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

  Howard Pyle

  Mean, Light, Color

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• Paint ideas, paint thought.

  Howard Pyle

  Ideas

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• In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Education, Glad

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

  David Hockney

  Nature, Needs, Looks

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• I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

  Grandma Moses

  Inspiration, Forget Everything, People

  "Grandma Moses Is Dead at 101; Primitive Artist 'Just Wore Out'". The New York Times Obituary, archive.nytimes.com. December 14, 1961.

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• Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Cards, Paper, Stamps

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

  Dogen

  Spring, Plums, Peaches

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• I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

  Meher Baba

  Artist, Soul, World

  Meher Baba (1972). “The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba”

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• I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

  Meher Baba

  Heart, Color, People

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• It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

  Willem de Kooning

  Thinking, Portraiture, Today

  Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.33, Taschen

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• If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.

  Robert Motherwell

  Children, Flower, Giving

  Robert Motherwell, Dore Ashton, Jack D. Flam, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1983). “Robert Motherwell”, Abbeville Pr

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• It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

  Robert Motherwell

  Power, Different, Size

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