Paint Quotes

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.

Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words."

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

We make the patterns on the computer, but we also paint them by hand - it's a combination of digital and screen-prints. I'm trying to do as much as I can myself in the studio.

Paint what you like and die happy

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.

Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

In the center was a tiny handprint in red paint.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

You can either buy shoes or paint.

I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.

As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.