#paint

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#doing #good #good things #knows #longer

Nature engenders the science of painting. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#nature #painting #science

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#function #his #model #only #painter

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#became #become #general #i #instead

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#eyes #order #ought #out #painters

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out. ↗

— Robert Plant

#just #new #nothing #nothing new #out

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#go #matter #modern #most #outside

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#money #paint #people #photography #portraits