Painting Techniques Quotes

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

Oh, I paint all the time.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.