Paint Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘oh I know that like the back of my hand.

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.