Paint Quotes

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.

I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

The silicone we use is the hardest, most UV stable we can get, and we have done enormous amounts of testing and research to get a paint solution that is extremely hardy and repairable.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

Paint like a pig eats.

Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking instead of painting, and I think I enjoyed it more. So I don't paint anymore.

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes.