#paint

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#appalling #bohemian #bought #existence #guitars

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#attention #behind #consciousness #focus #freedom

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#archaic #depends #i #i think #inevitably

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#doing #good #good things #knows #longer

Nature engenders the science of painting. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#nature #painting #science

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#material #means #nature #paintings #photography

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#i #i think #life #limited #painting

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#intended #old #paintings #read #sure

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#again #art #art form #form #good

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#doing #life #painting #picture #sum