Paint Quotes

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

The soul paints itself in our machines.

Master water first and then paint.

I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!

I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I think traditional media is vitally important, I think there are a lot of benefits to working in traditional media, and I enjoy doing working with real paint when I get the chance.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.