#paint

Oh, they said God was dead, all those beatniks and snooty-ass Frenchmen. Not me. I knew better. I said to them, "Wait, boys! Don't break cover yet awhile. He might be faking. I mean, they thought Saddam was dead. And the novel. And Glenn Close in that last scene of Fatal Attraction." That's what I said. But did they listen? Ohh no. They went right ahead and organized God's funeral. Well, don't count your chickens before they come home to roost... ↗

— Alan Moore

#nietzsche #painted-doll #home

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. ↗

— Theodore Robinson

#difficult #directly #helps #mind #nature

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#i #painting #playing #started #teenager

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. ↗

— Steven Saylor

#big picture #canvas #details #distance #gazing

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

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#exhausted #extracts #forgotten #give #greater

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

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

#hand #painters #real #their #understand