#paint

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. ↗

— Brad Holland

#both #careers #painting #picasso #probably

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. ↗

— Richard Price

#arts #because #choice #does #feel

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #mother #nabokov #paint #painter

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#divine #form #join #paint #semblance

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#beautiful #come #every #felt #field

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#good #nothing #painting #such #thing

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#i think #like #painter #poet #should

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism. ↗

— Will Sergeant

#am #century #chord #colour #early