Paint Quotes

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?

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

It's an honor to paint cats.

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?

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

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

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.

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

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

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