#paint

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. ↗

— Corita Kent

#each #get #harmony #inside #kind

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures. ↗

— Edwin Henry Landseer

#buy #i #i do #knew #much

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#actor #comes #director #himself #how

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#could #eye #eyes #how #long

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. ↗

— Jack Levine

#now #painting #recollected #something #tranquility

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#cities #colors #dwell #give #heard

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. ↗

— Joan Miro

#character #even #feel #give #greater

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

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#better #better off #chickens #know #off