Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.
Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. . . is wasteful and ridiculous excess
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.
I regret not starting to paint earlier. . . It is one of the few things I do regret.
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:]. . . for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.
When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.
Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking. . . ,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.
To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.
During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.
it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets