Sentence examples for why to paint from inspiring English sources

Isn't that always the big question for painters, the what and how and why to paint?

Naturally, the question arises: why try to paint impossibly complicated or fleeting subjects from sight when you can use the camera?

You need to be able to talk a little bit about why you like to paint and why you paint what you do.

So now he was giving a pizza party and answering a question about why he started to paint.

"As to why I have to paint these silly nets, I do not understand myself this strange action.

She recalled that as a child "my mother thought I had talent, and bought paint for me, and that's why I started to paint".

That may be why commentators tend to paint the disputes in an almost apocalyptic light: "The South China Sea is the Future of Conflict" shrieked an article last September in Foreign Policy, an American journal.

For Vincent's story, I am attempting to illustrate why he came to paint in his own blood.

"We want to know why Picasso chose to paint this naked child and what he was trying to convey by doing so," Merrill said.

I wondered why Rembrandt chose to paint a bow and arrow, a shield and a cross of swords above Lazarus's grave.

We spoke to the artist from New York to find out why she wanted to paint this photorealistic vision of female-ness and whether she ever thinks to herself: does this look like a nipple?