Paint Quotes

You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

The mind paints before the brush.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

you give me fever from miles around ill pick you up in my car and well paint the toown

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

I got a lot of body paint on me in a short period of time. I would definitely do it again because Joann Gair is so brilliant, but I would definitely need, like, a good long break for it.

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.