#paint

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#his #i #i think #island #just

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

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are. ↗

— Edwin A. Robinson

#knows #light #men #much #paint

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. ↗

— William Allan

#i #latin #learning #money #painter

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #draw #i #life #my life

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#canvas #chords #come #fingers #keyboard