Paint Quotes

I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

If you want to hide it, paint it red.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls.

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

Paint what you see, not what you know.

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That’s a unique way to cover up herpes.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

Republicans are already trying to paint Hillary Clinton as too old to be president. In fact, a new ad claims she’s so old that she could be a Republican.

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.