Paint Quotes

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could. It wasn’t easy.

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.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

You and I could paint the sky together. As the world goes by, we'll go on forever.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.

I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?