Paint Quotes

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Favorite color to paint my nails is black, always.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.