Paint Quotes

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.

I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

I paint all the time. Each night I wrestle, I paint my face because I am an artist. It's kind of all coming together where I am able to do everything I really love to do and need in my life.

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper.

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.