Painting Skill Quotes

Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

I have never been much of a painter.

I was a child prodigy. Like Michelangelo, who could draw a perfect circle at age five. I was extremely gifted. I could paint a perfect portrait of someone at age five.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.'

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.