#paint

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#certainty #come #deceive #does #essential

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#been #benefit #i #i think #looking

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#age #around #because #coming #end

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#i #painting #playing #started #teenager

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. ↗

— Steven Saylor

#big picture #canvas #details #distance #gazing

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#means #much #painting #pearls #string

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? ↗