Janet Fish famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.
-- Janet Fish

#Painting #Feels
I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics.
-- Janet Fish

#Freedom #Believe #Thinking
For me, painting is like meditation.
-- Janet Fish

#Meditation #Painting
I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.
-- Janet Fish

#Attitude #Skills #Grows
There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.
-- Janet Fish

#Perseverance #Want #Problem
For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.
-- Janet Fish

#Jobs #Long #Goal

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
I found I have to stay painting.
Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
Its sort of my job to feel good.
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

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