Paint Quotes

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

An artist paints his own reality.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.