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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. - Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. Georgia O'Keeffe

Nature, Flower, Beauty, Ignore, You

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. - Grandma Moses

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. Grandma Moses

Art, People, Better, You, Know, Chickens

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent Van Gogh

Dreams, Painting, Dream, I Dream, Then

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Flower, Sunset, Tree, Free, Photography

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you. Claude Monet

Tree, Blue, Yellow, Color, Pink, Think

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. - Georgia O'Keeffe

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. Georgia O'Keeffe

New York, New, Rather, Felt, York

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart. Peter Max

Heart, Creativity, Follow Your Heart

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. - Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. Danny Kaye

Life, Great, Life Is A, You, Canvas, Big

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing. Robert Redford

Drawing, Sketch, Tell, Just, Stories

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh

Art, Voice, You, Say, Will, Within

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Maya Angelou

Love, Walk, Mountains, Climb, Someone

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play. Erik Erikson

Children, Creativity, Child, Free, You

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida Kahlo

Dreams, Reality, My Own, Never, Own

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait. Francisco Goya

Art, Light, Me, Color, Portrait, Will

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. - Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Pablo Picasso

Child, Me, Years, Lifetime, Like, Four

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Words, Literature, Pictures, Way, Image

The more I paint the more I like everything. Jean-Michel Basquiat

More, Everything, Like

I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes. Christian Cota

Light, Clothes, Look, Shadows, Capture

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary. Andy Warhol

Try, Extraordinary, Happen, Things, Just

I paint flowers so they will not die. - Frida Kahlo

I paint flowers so they will not die. Frida Kahlo

Flowers, Die, Will

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. Steven Wright

Art, Creative, Guitar, Comedy, Drawing

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Edward Hopper

Words, You, Say, Reason, No Reason

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. Henri Matisse

Creative, Rose, Roses, Forget, Nothing

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. Franz Marc

Nature, Today, Spiritual, Look, Hidden

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? - Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? Pablo Picasso

Today, World, Pictures, Why, Sense, Make

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Things, Comment

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