“I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly . . . . If their painting doesn't improve by itself, it means that nothing can be done - and I wouldn't do anything!”
Claude Monet
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can”
Danny Kaye
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
Abraham Maslow
“No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.”
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
Willem de Kooning
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