Jean-Paul Riopelle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.
-- Jean-Paul Riopelle

#Paint

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
I paint with my back to the world
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

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