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A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint the lights cool and the shadows warm, and in the sunlight plane, paint the lights warm and shadows cool.

Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

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

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

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

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