Paint Quotes

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

I dont think you can lightly paint a picture. Its an activity I take very seriously.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

I choose to paint beauty.

I just can't seem to paint nice things.

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

You can paint your soul with any medium.

You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.

I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I only feel, but want the power to paint.