#painting

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#always #been #comforts #company #friend

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#could #freely #gave #information #kinds

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#apart #enjoy #general #i #know

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#could #exquisite #flower #had #i

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#door #painting #picture #stepping-stone #art

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#art form #dance #drive #every #focus

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting. ↗

— Billy Rose

#eats #invest #needs #never #painting

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#good #nothing #painting #such #thing

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#doing #drive #ears #eyes #hands

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones. ↗

— Arthur Rackham

#painting #art