Paint Quotes - Page 35

• If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

  Robert Motherwell

  Would Be, Painting, Painter

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• Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

  Robert Motherwell

  Incentives, Poor, Subjects

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• The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Artist, Mind, Canvas

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• Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.

  Joni Mitchell

  Lonely, Loneliness, Boxes

  Song: A Case of You

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• With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

  Joni Mitchell

  Painting

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• I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

  Robert Henri

  Purpose, Alive, Privilege

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• All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Music, Lonely, Art

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

  Frank Capra

  Helping, Delusion, Possession

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.

  Paul Theroux

  Jobs, People, Naked

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

  Irving Stone

  Beautiful, Real, Artist

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• Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

  Paul Cezanne

  Simple, Wish, May

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• Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

  Ben Shahn

  Believe, Feels

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• If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.

  Edouard Manet

  Lucky, Rooms, Firsts

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• Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

  John Constable

  Masters, Airy, Steam

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.181, A&C Black

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• What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

  Joyce Cary

  Artist, Frustration

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics

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• Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Giving, Flesh, Mud

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• There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Looks, Study, Subjects

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• If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

  Cennino Cennini

  Style, Mountain, Cracks

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• I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

  J. M. W. Turner

  People, Looks, Scene

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• Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

  Oriana Fallaci

  Portraits, Portraiture, Want

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• When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Sunshine, Thinking, Indolence

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• I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, School, Frustration

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• About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Realizing, Break, Ends

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• I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, Want, Innocence

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