A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
