#painting

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#damned #difficult #got #haven #painting

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#art #authentic #bad #beside #between

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#being #each #i #i think #long

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. ↗

— John le Carre

#anything #ask #be prepared #dali #diverse

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bit #cover #fact #few #good

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#artist #book #build #computer #doing

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#art #career #completely #connected #extent

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky. ↗

— Cher

#art #buy #come #creative #fantastic

I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting. ↗

— Les Claypool

#floyd #getting #i #know #like

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have. ↗

— Chuck Close

#clearer #decisions #i #i think #just