#paint

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#beautiful #depict #fall #feels #flaws

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle. ↗

— Robert Merrill

#i #painting

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that. ↗

— Christina Milian

#crafts #doing #fun #go #i

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. ↗

— John Milius

#does #great #great deal #just #learn

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#composition #elements #essential #essential elements #father

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#changes #cornell #county #ever #everybody

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time. ↗

— Martin Mull

#challenge #down #each #get #i

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing. ↗

— Martin Mull

#even #i #i think #important #important thing

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#leave #paintings #prefer #speak #themselves

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#best #breathes #him #instinctively #know