#paint

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#i #painting #playing #started #teenager

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

— Paul Scofield

#means #much #painting #pearls #string

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#only #paint #through #you #your

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#brushes #force #frustrated #getting #go

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#does #forms #frieze #i #life

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#details #did #emptiness #eye #followed

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#been #big #big band #biggest #completed

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

#i #i see #makes #me #nature

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting. ↗

— Robert Ryan

#greens #i #i feel #light #lot

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

— Julian Schnabel

#attention #been #just #marketing #much