#paint

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#into #itself #like #look #looks

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths. ↗

— John Lurie

#depths #i #music #paint #play

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#first-rate #more #painting #second-rate #soup

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#exhausted #extracts #forgotten #give #greater

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#cities #colors #dwell #give #heard

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. ↗

— Joan Miro

#character #even #feel #give #greater

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#brushes #force #frustrated #getting #go

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#am #become #being #flowers #following

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

#hand #painters #real #their #understand