Paint Quotes
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.
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.
We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.
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 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 never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.
Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.
Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.
Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.
It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
