#paint

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#brain #day #forward #history #hope

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#important #important thing #keeping #painting #thing

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#color #different #eyes #get #greens

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#down #hills #houses #i #mountains

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#behind #european #mask #matter #modern

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#i #music #painted #picture #rhythm

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#because #costs #keep #much #paint

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#i think #matter #music #painting #subject

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

#burden #dances #feeling #his #idea

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time. ↗

— Gary Numan

#airplane #business #buy #charge #colours