#painting

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#bad #because #couple #just #just because

Painting and writing are solitary arts. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#painting #solitary #writing

Sunlight is painting. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#sunlight

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#before #beforehand #complete #develops #eyes

Through a painting we can see the whole world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#see #through #whole #world

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#always #been #exact #impression #intimate

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#art #conception #contemporary #decorative #deny

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#i #like #love #meaningful #more

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#done #exactly #i #many #paintings

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. ↗

— Josef Albers

#curious #heart #just #optical #painting