Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.
The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.
A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
Glory is reserved for the twisted minds.
The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.
You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.
He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader's, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and fi...
All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.
Know everything. Say nothing.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what you've created. Maybe they can't afford it, but it calls them like the siren in a sea, an...
It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the min...
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.