Paint Quotes

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars.

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint them.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

You’re really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick)

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.