I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.
Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.
For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.
I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
His hero Millet had admonished. Auguste Renoir had told him. Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was you could see.
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...
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But pai...
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
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