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After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint them.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.

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.

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?