Paint Quotes

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

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

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

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

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

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

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.

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

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

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.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and kept going. If I could sing or paint, I would.

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.