#paint

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#his #just #own #painter #personal

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#enable #him #himself #jobs #outside

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance. ↗

— Martin Mull

#back #i #painting #vengeance #went

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#made #make #money #movie #never

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

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#ahead #always #artists #back #every

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ↗

— Thomas Couture

#colors #connection #consists #expressing #how

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#painting #art

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. ↗

— O. Henry

#arts #bullets #music #paint #painting

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#art #lighting #truth #art