Paint Quotes

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to win.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.

A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

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.