#paint

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. ↗

— Thomas Couture

#drinker #idiotic #man #only #painted

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on. ↗

— Julian Eltinge

#how #much #paint #put #splash

I want paint to work as flesh. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#i #paint #want #work

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#him #nothing #painting #sees #should

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#front #him #himself #inside #only

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#his #ideas #like #made #maker

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. ↗

— Keith Haring

#experience #i #paint #reality #see

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. ↗

— John Hench

#art #artist #communicate #far #fine

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #day #end #end of the day #forward