Paint Quotes

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

I paint with my back to the world

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

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

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

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

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner!

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. Its very tribal in a way - savage!

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

If you can't paint, paint Big.

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.