#paint

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. ↗

— James Mooney

#after #afternoon #always #begins #commonly

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. ↗

— Alan Moore

#childish #comic #comic books #films #illiterate

I like to paint nudes mostly. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#like #mostly #nudes #paint

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#i #learning #lot #painter #very

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ↗

— Henry Moore

#about #his #job #mistake #needed

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#brain #day #forward #history #hope

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#important #important thing #keeping #painting #thing

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#color #different #eyes #get #greens

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#down #hills #houses #i #mountains