#paints

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#every #good #painting #paints #self-discovery

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. ↗

— Otto Dix

#know #paints #portrait #possible #should

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ↗

— Michelangelo

#brains #hands #his #man #paints

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life. ↗

— David Johansen

#bought #canvas #compelled #creatively #day

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#among #does #essence #long #matter

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#clime #describes #frost #greatest #greatest artist

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels.... ↗

— Josh Stern

#funny #humor #naked #paints #picture

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#age #around #because #coming #end