#paint

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. ↗

— James Wolcott

#average #average american #conservatives #diner #faith

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#frankly #go #i #painting #see

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there? ↗

— Ron Wood

#face #i #know #paint #really

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. ↗

— George Woodcock

#i #like #mathematicians #me #move

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not. ↗

— Peter Wright

#beach #clothes #happen #i #landscapes

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. ↗

— Peter Wright

#making #object #own #painting #picture

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? ↗

— Peter Wright

#colour #flooding #front #going #i

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#collaborator #i #influences #like #nature

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#i #like #me #never #painting

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

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