What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.
No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.
As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.
I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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.
There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.
Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time and I like it.
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.
Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.
Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.
Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.
I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.