Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.
I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
Master water first and then paint.
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.
Artists who don't paint aren't artists.
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.
During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother. ' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair. '
Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.
As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.
I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are. . . The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being
The mind paints before the brush.
I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.
Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas.