#painted

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #creative #difficult #ever #first

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#cobbled #down #i #industrial #lived

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#because #being #good #good reason #i

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#actor #came #eisenhower #ever #expressive

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#been #folks #haven #i #life

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. ↗

— Erica Jong

#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#among #does #essence #long #matter

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#case #close #feasible #floor #hang

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. ↗

— Carly Simon

#canvas #coming #discover #feel #i

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

— Thomas Couture

#drinker #idiotic #man #only #painted