Top 38 Keep Painting Quotes

#1. I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

Pierre Soulages

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#2. I will keep painting until I die.

Yayoi Kusama

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#3. The big picture is that there is no big picture.
That's why we keep painting it.

Ronald Sukenick

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#4. And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much.

Charles Bukowski

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#5. Keep painting your demons.

Jack Beal

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#6. Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

Milton Avery

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#7. My heart shattered. 'The boy that you keep painting - the one at the warehouse and at the art gallery? That boy is you, isn't it?'
Rider didn't say anything.
'It's not you from the past,' I whispered. His handsome face blurred. 'That's still who you are.'
He closed his eyes.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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#8. As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.

Cory Trepanier

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#9. I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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#10. Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

Yoko Ono

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#11. Sometimes I freeze in front of the canvas, full of the knowledge that if I keep painting, sooner or later I will fail her

Julie Orringer

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#12. I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

Mike Thompson

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#13. Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.

Charlotte Rampling

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#14. Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

Joseph Heller

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#15. Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

William Morris Hunt

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#16. I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

Jules Olitski

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#17. You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is ... unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

Alice Neel

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#18. If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.

Wu Guanzhong

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#19. My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

Paul Cezanne

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#20. The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

Morris Graves

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#21. I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

Pierre Soulages

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#22. I keep scraping the canvas
And painting him over again
But he keeps slipping away

Edward Hirsch

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#23. I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

Willem De Kooning

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#24. Again, we can see the importance of imaginal practices such as journals, dream work, poetry, painting, and therapy aimed at exploring images in dream and life. These methods keep us actively engaged in the mythologies that are the stuff of our own lives. The

Thomas Moore

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#25. We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

Elizabeth Aston

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#26. I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.

William Baziotes

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#27. I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

Richard Diebenkorn

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#28. You keep seeking to redeem me. You keep looking and hoping. Painting me in emotions I do not have, nor can have.

Caroline Hanson

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#29. Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.

April Gornik

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#30. Why don't we keep that secret? Hunters will lose their reputations if we're seen saving puppies and painting flowers.

Katherine McIntyre

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#31. When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects.
I think the life is the same.

Hiroko Sakai

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#32. 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.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#33. Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Horace

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#34. I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

Sylvia Kristel

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#35. If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

Andrew McDermott

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#36. It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

Maira Kalman

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#37. I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

Willem De Kooning

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#38. If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

Gary Panter

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