“ Eschew the monumental. Shun the epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.5K
“ You don't paint the way someone, by observing your life, thinks you have to paint, you paint the way you have to in order to give, that's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving… ”
- Franz Kline- Copy
- 207
“ The painter … does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paint box and its inherited contents. ”
- Annie Dillard- Copy
- 2.8K
“ White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture… ”
- John Singer Sargent- Copy
- 657
“ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ”
- Danny Kaye- Copy
- 2.8K
“ If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
- 2.7K
“ You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. ”
- Frida Kahlo- Copy
- 2.1K
“ What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors. ”
- Rhys Alexander- Copy
- 1.9K
“ A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
- 701
“ A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. ”
- Abraham H. Maslow- Copy
- 3K
“ An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. ”
- Willem de Kooning- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. ”
- Robert Fulghum- Copy
- 3.9K
“ But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Concerning God, freewill and destiny: of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 530
“ Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. ”
- Pierre Bonnard- Copy
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