Paint Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

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

I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Everyday's a good day when you paint

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

History paints the human heart.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

I don't paint, I hit.

Paint faster than you can think.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.