#paint

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#could #eye #hand #paint #see

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! ↗

— Robert Musil

#alone #creation #day #god #lifes

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#hadn #i #painting #raised #started

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. ↗

— George Edward Moore

#does #how #like #long #matter

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#ahead #always #artists #back #every

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then. ↗

— James Young

#be true #fact #feeling #go #i

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american society #aristocratic #breaking #colours #covered

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#painting #art

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. ↗

— O. Henry

#arts #bullets #music #paint #painting

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#art #lighting #truth #art