35 quotes found
“I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.”
“A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.”
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.”
“Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.”
“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.”
“I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.”
“The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.”
“There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.”
“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.”
“For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.”
“Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.”
