Paint Quotes

If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen.

If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

We only have our nervous system to paint.

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Never paint your wife or your mother.