Paint Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Paint

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Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid? — Rob Lowe

What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself? — Gregory Maguire

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse ... but surely you will see the wildness! — Pablo Picasso

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali

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

Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. — Suzanne Collins

Use your own paint; colour your world — Israelmore Ayivor

I often find that people want to paint themselves one colour - like, 'I'm the baddie' - and they've always got this snarl on their face. — Toby Kebbell

It was massive. A blurting, busting, backfire! A flabbergasting, fire-breathing, flub-explosion! A propelling, paint-stripping, prison-break! — Ferguson Fartworthy

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous. — David Bailey

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. — Pablo Picasso

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint. — Frida Kahlo

He that cannot paint must grind the colors. — J.G. Holland

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy. — Antony Sher

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint. — Josef Albers

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished. — Neil Welliver

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another. — Joseph Plaskett

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. — Jim Henson

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck — Hunter S. Thompson

How do you paint a writer's block?
Just fill it with fifty shades of black. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? — Alexander McCall Smith

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself. — Francis Bacon

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath — Salvador Dali

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

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

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible. — Georges Braque

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness. — John Suckling

I like to paint nudes mostly. — Cleo Moore

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. — Cassandra Clare

I was never one to paint space, I paint air. — Fairfield Porter

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance. — Joss Whedon

Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical. — B.A. Gabrielle

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art. — Pierre Bonnard

The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint
The greats were great because they paint a lot — Macklemore

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint. — Agnes Martin

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush. — Toni Onley

A life without imagination would not be a life well lived. Colour your thoughts and paint the shared skies with your dreams for all to see. — Truth Devour

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift. — Kelly Wearstler

Jesus, you get sentimental when you're high on paint fumes. — Lisa Kleypas

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. — Elsie De Wolfe

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet. — Becky G

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I regret not starting to paint earlier ... It is one of the few things I do regret. — Francis Bacon

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject. — Keith Shackleton

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

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint. — Aime Cesaire

Love is like paint - you can't spread even a little without getting
some on yourself. — Wayne L. Misner

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told. — Charles Martin

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy. — Bruno Tonioli

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' — Larry Ellison

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future. — Archibald Marwizi

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

Don't work bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing tones everywhere. - CAMILLE PISSARRO — Stephanie Cowell

- I can paint that fucking cave. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. — Eleonora Duse

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

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint. — John Marin

I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. — Toni Sorenson

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it. — Tony Bennett

Silence has its own colour to paint the truth — Munia Khan

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. — Edward Ruscha

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

We know that madness belongs to love,
what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision. — Nelson Shanks

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain. — Douglas Lockwood

Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most beautiful city in the history of earth! — Donna Tartt

but you're as smart as paint. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself. — Horace Pippin

Writing is an art. A document is your canvas, words are your paint, and a keyboard is your paintbrush. — Lizzy Grimm

How do you see this tree? Is it green?
... Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible. — Paul Gauguin

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there. — Auliq Ice

Sing will all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind — Pocahontas

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

Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time. — Frances Hardinge

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?' — Kara Walker

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying. — Drake

If I can't, then I'll paint the walls of her house red with my blood. — Dia Reeves

When they shall paint our sockets gray
And light us like a stinking fuse,
Remember that we once could say,
Yesterday we had a world to lose. — Stanley Kunitz

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day. — Yayoi Kusama

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea. — Julia Roberts

If I began to draw
myself away from you

we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer
I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers
How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas. — Lil B

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

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully. — Jeffrey Smart

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. Vittoria — Dan Brown

I paint when I cannot photograph. — Man Ray

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane. — Walter Keane

If you see a red tree, paint it bright red. — Paul Cezanne

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

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye

Bands
enough with the crayon face-paint
you're better than that. — Ted Leo

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. — Winston Churchill

Walk on your own yellow brick road. If you can't find one, spray paint your way into happiness. If that doesn't work, buy yellow shoes. — Sadiqua Hamdan